EU ambassadors confirm Peter Sorensen as special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina

EU member countries' ambassadors today confirmed the appointment of Danish diplomat Peter Sorensen as the new EU special envoy for the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Tanjug has learned from diplomatic sources in Brussels.

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The proposal to appoint Sorensen came from EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas. The final step in the selection process will be for EU foreign ministers to give approval on Monday so he can start in his new role in early February.

The mandate of the current EU special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajcak, expires on January 31. Sorensen is a career diplomat with extensive experience in the Western Balkans.

From 2006 to 2010, he was the personal representative in Belgrade of then EU High Representative. He also served in Pristina, where from 2001 to 2002 he was a senior adviser to the special representative of the UN Secretary-General, and from 2002 to 2006 as the vice president of Pillar IV (Reconstruction and Economic Development) of UNMIK.

Previously, in 2000, he worked as a legal adviser to the special envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Balkans.

He also served as the head of the EU Delegation in Skopje from 2010 to 2011 and as the EU Special Envoy and Head of the EU Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2011 to 2014.

Sorensen was a political advisor and observer in the European Community's mission in Yugoslavia from 1995 to 1996, a legal advisor to the High Representative in Sarajevo from 1996 to 1997, and then the head of the political department and senior advisor to the head of the OSCE in Croatia from 1997 to 1999.

He currently works at EU's foreign affairs service.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)