EU envoy urges Kosovo and Serbia to step up efforts towards normalising relations

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Kosovo was a Serbian province until NATO's 78-day bombing campaign in 1999 ended a war between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, pushing Serbian forces out.

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00:00The European Union envoy for the Western Balkans has urged Kosovo and Serbia to step up efforts

00:07at normalizing relations.

00:09Speaking in Kosovo's capital Pristina, Miroslav Lacak said the move would be divisive towards

00:15the two countries joining the bloc.

00:18The EU and the United States are pressing both sides to implement agreements that Serbian

00:23President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti reached in February and

00:28March last year.

00:30Of course the very important issue is how to unblock the implementation of the agreement

00:34on the path to normalization and we had a very detailed discussion with...

00:39The relationship between Kosovo and Serbia remains tense and the 13-year-long normalization

00:44talks facilitated by the European Union have failed to make progress.

00:49Kosovo was a Serbian province until NATO's 78-day bombing campaign in 1999 ended a war

00:55between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.

01:01Serbia doesn't recognize Kosovo's independence proclaimed in 2008.

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