“I really think that Kosovo deserved to be granted a visa-free regime a long time ago”, declared EU Special Envoy for the dialogue with Serbia, Miroslav Lajcak at the end of his three-day visit to Prishtina.
“The European Commission has made it very clear that Kosovo fulfilled all the conditions, but you know that this is not related to the talks, but it requires a consensual agreement among 27 member countries”, said the high EU official.
Lajcak emphasized that it won’t be much longer until travel visas are lifted.
“I can only tell you that I raise this issue every time I brief member states and I tell ambassadors in Brussels how painful this is in Kosovo. I truly hope that it will not take much more time until we see a full visa liberalization”, declared Lajcak.
The voting process for lifting the visa regime with Kosovo has been blocked by the EU Council for years by a large number of countries.
According to the Croatian EU Presidency, the countries that voted in favor were not enough to achieve the qualified majority vote.
Lajcak and Escobar unanimously declared that the United States and the European Union do not want to impose the establishment of a Serbian republic within the territory of Kosovo.
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