Escobar: Turning your back on the agreement means turning your back on Europe, with all the consequences

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US Special Envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar said today that in his conversation with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, he clearly indicated that turning one's back on the agreement means turning one's back on Europe, with all the consequences in terms of the failure of further integrations and closer cooperation with Europe, which, as pointed out, is a serious consequence in itself.

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"First of all, we have to immediately calm the tensions, which means that we hope that (Albanian) mayors will not try to use those municipal buildings and that the Kosovo police will withdraw from the buildings, but also that the Serb demonstrators will leave those locations. And if there are new elections, and when there are new elections, Serbs should participate in them without any preconditions," Escobar said.

Escobar stressed that President Vucic said that he will do everything to use his influence so that the Serbs again participate in elections in the north of Kosovo.

Escobar said that he expects the dialogue between the EU's special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajcak, and the government in Pristina to continue even after he leaves Belgrade.

"I hope they will recognize that there is one consequence, which I have indicated, which is that, as I said, turning your back on the European proposal means turning your back on the EU, and there are also the United Kingdom and the United States. We, as their friends, we encourage them to align with us and achieve regional stability," said Escobar.

He added that, "if Pristina does not want a partnership, then it will move away from an alliance with NATO, which in itself is a big consequence."

(Telegraf.rs)