Warlick: Kosovo Government's operations not coordinated with U.S.

Source: Tanjug

The top priority task now is that all the parties in the region begin working on the pacification of the situation. We are concerned about the situation and we will support both KFOR and other international institutions so that this task could be realized, Warlick said in an interview with the Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS).

U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Mary Warlick voiced huge concern Wednesday over the situation in northern Kosovo and called on all sides to refrain from violence.

She expressed her regret over the actions of the Kosovo government in Pristina aimed at taking control over the customs check points in northern Kosovo, which, as she underlined, had not in any way been coordinated with the U.S. and the rest of the international community.

The top priority task now is that all the parties in the region begin working on the pacification of the situation. We are concerned about the situation and we will support both KFOR and other international institutions so that this task could be realized, Warlick said in an interview with the Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS).

The U.S. ambassador urged the governments in Belgrade and Pristina to establish the principle of positive reciprocity so that the situation could get back to normal. We call on the governments in Belgrade and Pristina to establish the so-called principle of positive reciprocity that means a normalization of the situation in which people and goods will normally flow between Kosovo and Serbia, she underlined.

Warlick added that the U.S. backs the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina with the mediation of the EU as the best means for the resolution of the problem.