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“The United States is ready to promote economic normalization,” White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said on Twitter.
Washington hopes that in the two-day talks, mediated by Richard Grenel, Trump’s special adviser, both sides will complete work on proposals to resume road, rail and air traffic, which Grenel said will boost the economies on both sides.
“Our expectations are extremely positive,” Hoti told the Kosovo media before the two-day talks.
“We will do what we can to reach a compromise on important economic issues,” Vučič said in a statement posted on the web.
“We want peace, we want stability, we want progress for Belgrade, Pristina and our whole region,” he said.
Although Brussels has played a leading role in the normalization of relations between Pristina and Belgrade over the past decade, the United States has recently become more active in this direction, with Tramp’s appointment as Special Envoy to Grenel.
Belgrade actually lost control of the predominantly Albanian population of Kosovo in 1999 after NATO military intervention, but in 2008 Pristina unilaterally declared independence from Serbia.
Kosovo’s independence has already been recognized by more than 110 countries, including most EU Member States, but Serbia still considers the former province to be part of its territory. This position is also supported by Belgrade’s ally Russia.
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