Frank Wisner, the former U.S. envoy in Kosovo’s status talks, says that Kosovo today is a mixed story — “it hasn’t achieved everything it desired, but it has built itself as a sovereign state within the European family.”
Wisner notes that Serbia, even to this day, is not ready to accept the reality of an independent Kosovo, and as a result, the agreements reached between the two countries, according to him, do not work.
For its own reasons, he says, Kosovo should create the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities, but with “very limited responsibilities.”
Wisner believes it is still too early to say what can be expected from the administration of elected U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the Western Balkans.
“The previous Trump administration had a series of ideas aimed at reaching a territorial agreement… Any move toward this goal would do nothing but create trouble in the Western Balkans. I hope this will not tempt the new administration,” he told Radio Free Europe.
