The Western Balkans region is not expected to be in the attention of the new American administration. This is what former National Security Advisor during the first Trump administration, John Bolton, thinks. In an interview for Ekspress Newspaper in Kosovo, the key man during the Kosovo-Serbia talks on the territorial exchange, said that the USA has an interest in this region and that the new administration must be serious.
"I think given the press conference at Mar-a-Lago, you can see that some Western Hemisphere issues have come to the fore, and how much priority will be given to the Balkans in the early days is hard to say. If the administration is serious about reaching agreements between parties in the region that are permanent, it would be important. Otherwise, outsiders who have no interest in peace and stability in the region will intervene, and what is already complicated can become even worse," says Bolton, according to A2 CNN.
As for the history of the idea of correcting the borders, Bolton says that he does not know where the idea first came from, but he says that he was personally confronted with the idea when former British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited him at the White House and mentioned it to him. topic, writes A2 CNN.
"I don't know where the origin of this issue started. My first conversation involving the possibility of territorial exchanges was with Tony Blair. He came to visit me at the White House. "I knew him from when he was prime minister during the George W. Bush administration, and he encouraged me to get involved to see if I could be useful," Bolton continued.
Thus, Bolton emphasized that the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia may have been close to an agreement in 2020, but their parliaments, and especially Kosovo's, were not ready to approve it. (A2 Televizion)
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