"Russia wants disorder"; "Agreement between Belgrade and Pristina is possible"
Special U.S. Envoy for the Western Balkan Matthew Palmer stated that he is convinced that agreement between Belgrade and Pristina can be reached
Source: Tanjug
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He added that United States would back the Government in Pristina as it is devoted to dialogue, while Russian wants the region based on disorder and mistrust.
"One of our primary goals is to support the formation of Kosovo Government that is devoted to dialogue, which means suspending tariffs and returning to the negotiations table", he said in an interview for RTCG.
He said that the negotiations should be serious, resulting in a comprehensive agreement on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.
"It would be ideal if it could be done based on mutual recognition. Once when both sides return to negotiations table, we would be partners in quest for the agreement that would be acceptable to all sides, permanent and fair, that would help Serbia on its EU path", Palmer said.
He added that the whole region depends on this issue, saying that he doesn't believe that the disputes between Belgrade and Pristina could affect the European path of other countries.
Palmer said that "Russians are in force in the Western Balkans" and that the US has a fundamentally different perspective of the region compared to Russia.
"We see the Western Balkans as a member of a family of Western countries, integrated in Euro-Atlantic institutions, as countries that cooperate on the basis of rules and norms. The Russians have indicated that they want a region based on disorder and mistrust. I think we saw it most clearly in Montenegro when the Russians supported the 2016 coup, which was an outrageous move to prevent Montenegro from joining NATO and the West,", he said.
Asked if he thought it was possible for something like that to happen again, Palmer said he had no information that could lead him to believe that something like that could happen again. "However, I don't think that the Russians had finished with putting efforts to cause problems in Montenegro nad in the Western Balkans, and we see that throughout the region", Palmer concluded.
He said that it is realistic for Northern Macedonia to become NATO member in December, although it is quite an ambitious goal. "There are still a number of members that need to ratify the accession protocol, including the US. That requires an internal procedure in the Senate and we hope it will be completed by December. If all that doesn't happen then, it will set another deadline, in a few months, however, I am convinced that Northern Macedonia will soon become the 30th NATO member", he said.
Asked how he sees the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he said he believes that agreement on the formation of a new government can be reached quickly in Sarajevo.
The US Special Envoy for the Western Balkans also believes that the government and the opposition in Montenegro will agree on electoral conditions and that the opposition will participate in the elections next October.
"I hope that progress can be made. Unfortunately, the opposition does not participate in the work of parliament, which is a fundamental institution and the pillar of democracy. It is important that they understand this responsibility and return to parliament and represent the interests of the citizens who have given them confidence, as soon as possible”, he said.
He also said that the US shares the EU's opinion in the latest report when it comes to reforms implemented by Montenegro.
"Montenegro has made significant progress, but it will have to do much more, especially in the fields of media freedom and the rule of law. We would like to see successful legal proceedings against those who attacked journalists, including Olivera Lakic, who is an international award winner”, he said.
According to him, it is especially important for Montenegro to make progress in chapters 23 and 24, which focus on the rule of law, in order to close the chapters it has opened on its way to the EU.
Palmer reiterated that with this visit, he sends an important message to the region that if they work hard and implement reforms, they could move forward.
Palmer met with the Montenegrin President and Prime Minister, Milo Djukanovic and Dusko Markovic, yesterday in Podgorica.
Naturally this is funny to a clown like you who has no idea what is going on around you and sings the praises of the US fighting for freedom and democracy. Who invaded Afghanistan on the pretext of Osama brining down the twin towers? Who invaded Iraq on the pretext that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction? Who bombed Syria and created a failed state there? Who funded the insurgency in Syria? And who purchased weapons from Serbia that ended up with ISIS in Syria????
Who is funding and organising the protest in Hong Kong which is useless? Yep it was the US of Piss and Wind.
My God you people work for $7 an hour and get dumber and dumber by the hour and love it LOL.
(sj, 13 September 2019 10:37)
Kosovo was never Muslim it was always serbian territory why does the us persistently want give kosovo to Albania the first capital city of serbia wasnt belgrade it was actually in kosovo I think the first capital city was called skadar it's a no brainer to me I have to agree with Russia becuase Americans dont know and dont understand history
(Vladimir jozic, 12 September 2019 05:04)
And USA does not?
No one demonstrated to rep Serbia&Kim, Montenegro disorder better than USA,EU countries by illegally bombing.
Rep Serbia is single minded, but appear to listen and draw its conclusion.
The basis are Kim is Rep Serbia,resolution 1244 is there
Russian disorder might be an order actually.
(British, 11 September 2019 10:32)
Peace & democracy are safe in the USA then? Do me a favour you belligerent windbag. The US has been exporting death and destruction around the globe,undermining peace and wreaking havoc in "democracies" where their guy hasn't won or where their guy has been put in place. The Russians aren't angelic in that regard either but don't seem to export their views as globally as the Americans seem to. It would be a nicer planet if neither of those two existed and religious dogmas,which we needn't mention by name,didn't fill people's heads with lunatic ideologies. Can't we just live our lives in real peace and forget about democracy as I'm more inclined to long for benevolent global dictatorship as a safer,albeit a more unlikely,occurrence.Don't forget the fundamental flaw with democracy(as this American upstart defines it) is that two idiots can outvote one person with a brain.Hence you have all these unsavoury characters around the world in charge of vast arsenals of weaponry at their disposal. Don't know about you "Peace" but they scare the crap out of me!!!!
(Prudent, 10 September 2019 19:52)
Russia and Serbia are allergic to peace and democracy!
(Peace, 10 September 2019 17:59)
If it's peace and democracy that was infused into places such as Lybia, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Vietnam, Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama.... yes the Russians and Serbs are certainly allergic to your American Orwellian "peace".
(Zhukov, 10 September 2019 19:27)
The US has invaded country after country and failed miserably at every turn. Its funded ISIS and other Islamist groups because it does not have sufficient manpower in their military. Its defence firms have purchased arms from Serbia only to give them to ISIS et al. (sj, 10 September 2019 12:44)
This is too funny. Sj is so blindly committed to his "Serbia is gaining massive investments" and "everything the US does is wrong" that he goes so far as claiming that the US is buying arms from Serbia to fund ISIS. Could it get any crazier? I don't particularly support Palmer's statements but sj has out-stupided Palmer 10-to-1.
(Dream on, 10 September 2019 19:10)
Peace.......are you a comedian??
The terrorist band called the KLA was illegaly formed with the goal of stealing Serbian land. They started the fight and then cried wolf, played the victim and paid key US politicians (and lobby groups to lie/campaign for them). Bob Dole was paid $70,000 per month for 3 years. Others include Engel. Allbright and others are now making millions from obtaining shares in valuable mines in Kosovo.
Now a simpleton like you comes out with a stupid statement......
Please google Jimmy Carters speech in April of this year......"America, the most warlike nation in the history of the world".
How many countries has the US invaded since WW2? How many covert ops and how many toppled governments have they been involved in? They have countless bases in over 100 countries. And you have the nerve (or stupidity) to come out with a statement like that.
And you dare call yourself "Peace"..? You are nothing short of a brain dead idiot.
(View from the uk, 10 September 2019 18:42)
By int. Law any country that took place in bombing rep Serbia&Kim and Montenegro had ruled themselves out of involvement in peace talks, normalisation or any plan between the Belgrade & Pristina.
USA, Palmer unfit
(British, 10 September 2019 16:20)
This is the result of dumbing your people down as has occurred in the US. Since your people are dumbed down you get a diplomat like Palmer coming out with statements such as it’s all Russia’s fault. It’s as if the entire world is stupid and, like the US population, believe everything US tells them.
I am not a fan of Macron but even he has said that Russia is not the problem but it’s the US.
The US has invaded country after country and failed miserably at every turn. Its funded ISIS and other Islamist groups because it does not have sufficient manpower in their military. Its defence firms have purchased arms from Serbia only to give them to ISIS et al.
(sj, 10 September 2019 12:44)
Orwellian double speak from the country that funds KLA terrorists, hypocritically ignores UN resolution 1244, and has spread disorder, death and destruction in all corners of the globe.
(Zhukov, 10 September 2019 10:09)
Orwellian double speak from the country that funds KLA terrorists, hypocritically ignores UN resolution 1244, and has spread disorder, death and destruction in all corners of the globe.
(Zhukov, 10 September 2019 10:09)
Peace.......are you a comedian??
The terrorist band called the KLA was illegaly formed with the goal of stealing Serbian land. They started the fight and then cried wolf, played the victim and paid key US politicians (and lobby groups to lie/campaign for them). Bob Dole was paid $70,000 per month for 3 years. Others include Engel. Allbright and others are now making millions from obtaining shares in valuable mines in Kosovo.
Now a simpleton like you comes out with a stupid statement......
Please google Jimmy Carters speech in April of this year......"America, the most warlike nation in the history of the world".
How many countries has the US invaded since WW2? How many covert ops and how many toppled governments have they been involved in? They have countless bases in over 100 countries. And you have the nerve (or stupidity) to come out with a statement like that.
And you dare call yourself "Peace"..? You are nothing short of a brain dead idiot.
(View from the uk, 10 September 2019 18:42)
This is the result of dumbing your people down as has occurred in the US. Since your people are dumbed down you get a diplomat like Palmer coming out with statements such as it’s all Russia’s fault. It’s as if the entire world is stupid and, like the US population, believe everything US tells them.
I am not a fan of Macron but even he has said that Russia is not the problem but it’s the US.
The US has invaded country after country and failed miserably at every turn. Its funded ISIS and other Islamist groups because it does not have sufficient manpower in their military. Its defence firms have purchased arms from Serbia only to give them to ISIS et al.
(sj, 10 September 2019 12:44)
By int. Law any country that took place in bombing rep Serbia&Kim and Montenegro had ruled themselves out of involvement in peace talks, normalisation or any plan between the Belgrade & Pristina.
USA, Palmer unfit
(British, 10 September 2019 16:20)
Peace & democracy are safe in the USA then? Do me a favour you belligerent windbag. The US has been exporting death and destruction around the globe,undermining peace and wreaking havoc in "democracies" where their guy hasn't won or where their guy has been put in place. The Russians aren't angelic in that regard either but don't seem to export their views as globally as the Americans seem to. It would be a nicer planet if neither of those two existed and religious dogmas,which we needn't mention by name,didn't fill people's heads with lunatic ideologies. Can't we just live our lives in real peace and forget about democracy as I'm more inclined to long for benevolent global dictatorship as a safer,albeit a more unlikely,occurrence.Don't forget the fundamental flaw with democracy(as this American upstart defines it) is that two idiots can outvote one person with a brain.Hence you have all these unsavoury characters around the world in charge of vast arsenals of weaponry at their disposal. Don't know about you "Peace" but they scare the crap out of me!!!!
(Prudent, 10 September 2019 19:52)
Russia and Serbia are allergic to peace and democracy!
(Peace, 10 September 2019 17:59)
If it's peace and democracy that was infused into places such as Lybia, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Vietnam, Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama.... yes the Russians and Serbs are certainly allergic to your American Orwellian "peace".
(Zhukov, 10 September 2019 19:27)
And USA does not?
No one demonstrated to rep Serbia&Kim, Montenegro disorder better than USA,EU countries by illegally bombing.
Rep Serbia is single minded, but appear to listen and draw its conclusion.
The basis are Kim is Rep Serbia,resolution 1244 is there
Russian disorder might be an order actually.
(British, 11 September 2019 10:32)
The US has invaded country after country and failed miserably at every turn. Its funded ISIS and other Islamist groups because it does not have sufficient manpower in their military. Its defence firms have purchased arms from Serbia only to give them to ISIS et al. (sj, 10 September 2019 12:44)
This is too funny. Sj is so blindly committed to his "Serbia is gaining massive investments" and "everything the US does is wrong" that he goes so far as claiming that the US is buying arms from Serbia to fund ISIS. Could it get any crazier? I don't particularly support Palmer's statements but sj has out-stupided Palmer 10-to-1.
(Dream on, 10 September 2019 19:10)
Naturally this is funny to a clown like you who has no idea what is going on around you and sings the praises of the US fighting for freedom and democracy. Who invaded Afghanistan on the pretext of Osama brining down the twin towers? Who invaded Iraq on the pretext that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction? Who bombed Syria and created a failed state there? Who funded the insurgency in Syria? And who purchased weapons from Serbia that ended up with ISIS in Syria????
Who is funding and organising the protest in Hong Kong which is useless? Yep it was the US of Piss and Wind.
My God you people work for $7 an hour and get dumber and dumber by the hour and love it LOL.
(sj, 13 September 2019 10:37)
Kosovo was never Muslim it was always serbian territory why does the us persistently want give kosovo to Albania the first capital city of serbia wasnt belgrade it was actually in kosovo I think the first capital city was called skadar it's a no brainer to me I have to agree with Russia becuase Americans dont know and dont understand history
(Vladimir jozic, 12 September 2019 05:04)
Orwellian double speak from the country that funds KLA terrorists, hypocritically ignores UN resolution 1244, and has spread disorder, death and destruction in all corners of the globe.
(Zhukov, 10 September 2019 10:09)
This is the result of dumbing your people down as has occurred in the US. Since your people are dumbed down you get a diplomat like Palmer coming out with statements such as it’s all Russia’s fault. It’s as if the entire world is stupid and, like the US population, believe everything US tells them.
I am not a fan of Macron but even he has said that Russia is not the problem but it’s the US.
The US has invaded country after country and failed miserably at every turn. Its funded ISIS and other Islamist groups because it does not have sufficient manpower in their military. Its defence firms have purchased arms from Serbia only to give them to ISIS et al.
(sj, 10 September 2019 12:44)
The US has invaded country after country and failed miserably at every turn. Its funded ISIS and other Islamist groups because it does not have sufficient manpower in their military. Its defence firms have purchased arms from Serbia only to give them to ISIS et al. (sj, 10 September 2019 12:44)
This is too funny. Sj is so blindly committed to his "Serbia is gaining massive investments" and "everything the US does is wrong" that he goes so far as claiming that the US is buying arms from Serbia to fund ISIS. Could it get any crazier? I don't particularly support Palmer's statements but sj has out-stupided Palmer 10-to-1.
(Dream on, 10 September 2019 19:10)
Peace.......are you a comedian??
The terrorist band called the KLA was illegaly formed with the goal of stealing Serbian land. They started the fight and then cried wolf, played the victim and paid key US politicians (and lobby groups to lie/campaign for them). Bob Dole was paid $70,000 per month for 3 years. Others include Engel. Allbright and others are now making millions from obtaining shares in valuable mines in Kosovo.
Now a simpleton like you comes out with a stupid statement......
Please google Jimmy Carters speech in April of this year......"America, the most warlike nation in the history of the world".
How many countries has the US invaded since WW2? How many covert ops and how many toppled governments have they been involved in? They have countless bases in over 100 countries. And you have the nerve (or stupidity) to come out with a statement like that.
And you dare call yourself "Peace"..? You are nothing short of a brain dead idiot.
(View from the uk, 10 September 2019 18:42)
Russia and Serbia are allergic to peace and democracy!
(Peace, 10 September 2019 17:59)
If it's peace and democracy that was infused into places such as Lybia, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Vietnam, Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama.... yes the Russians and Serbs are certainly allergic to your American Orwellian "peace".
(Zhukov, 10 September 2019 19:27)
By int. Law any country that took place in bombing rep Serbia&Kim and Montenegro had ruled themselves out of involvement in peace talks, normalisation or any plan between the Belgrade & Pristina.
USA, Palmer unfit
(British, 10 September 2019 16:20)
Peace & democracy are safe in the USA then? Do me a favour you belligerent windbag. The US has been exporting death and destruction around the globe,undermining peace and wreaking havoc in "democracies" where their guy hasn't won or where their guy has been put in place. The Russians aren't angelic in that regard either but don't seem to export their views as globally as the Americans seem to. It would be a nicer planet if neither of those two existed and religious dogmas,which we needn't mention by name,didn't fill people's heads with lunatic ideologies. Can't we just live our lives in real peace and forget about democracy as I'm more inclined to long for benevolent global dictatorship as a safer,albeit a more unlikely,occurrence.Don't forget the fundamental flaw with democracy(as this American upstart defines it) is that two idiots can outvote one person with a brain.Hence you have all these unsavoury characters around the world in charge of vast arsenals of weaponry at their disposal. Don't know about you "Peace" but they scare the crap out of me!!!!
(Prudent, 10 September 2019 19:52)
And USA does not?
No one demonstrated to rep Serbia&Kim, Montenegro disorder better than USA,EU countries by illegally bombing.
Rep Serbia is single minded, but appear to listen and draw its conclusion.
The basis are Kim is Rep Serbia,resolution 1244 is there
Russian disorder might be an order actually.
(British, 11 September 2019 10:32)
Naturally this is funny to a clown like you who has no idea what is going on around you and sings the praises of the US fighting for freedom and democracy. Who invaded Afghanistan on the pretext of Osama brining down the twin towers? Who invaded Iraq on the pretext that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction? Who bombed Syria and created a failed state there? Who funded the insurgency in Syria? And who purchased weapons from Serbia that ended up with ISIS in Syria????
Who is funding and organising the protest in Hong Kong which is useless? Yep it was the US of Piss and Wind.
My God you people work for $7 an hour and get dumber and dumber by the hour and love it LOL.
(sj, 13 September 2019 10:37)
Kosovo was never Muslim it was always serbian territory why does the us persistently want give kosovo to Albania the first capital city of serbia wasnt belgrade it was actually in kosovo I think the first capital city was called skadar it's a no brainer to me I have to agree with Russia becuase Americans dont know and dont understand history
(Vladimir jozic, 12 September 2019 05:04)