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Tim Judah: No one better than Palmer for the post, but appointment is not enough Author: KoSSev 2-3 minutes _____ With over 25 years of experience, Matthew Palmer knows the region perfectly and its key figures, a renown journalist Tim Judah said, adding that Palmer is compassionate and realistic and that the US could not have chosen a better person for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. Still, while it represents a good move showing interest in resolving the said issue, the mere appointment of a US envoy is not necessarily a signal that the dialogue is getting out of the current impasse, he said, adding that it could be a sign of progress if the EU made a similar move - appointed its own envoy. In speaking to KoSSev, Judah nevertheless pointed out that neither the US nor the EU currently have the level of influence they previously had, and that until a few years ago it would have been unthinkable for Albanian politicians in Kosovo to refuse something to the US. The current Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Balkans and the Aegean region, Matthew Palmer was appointed US' Special Representative for the Western Balkans on Friday. In practice, this means that he will take on the role of a US mediator in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, which has been in a deadlock for a year. Judah thinks it is good that the US has named a person with excellent knowledge of the region and all its key figures. "Besides, I think Palmer is both compassionate and realistic," Judah says. However, the mere appointment of a US envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, in the midst of volatile political circumstances in both Pristina and Belgrade, is not necessarily a signal of the break in the deadlock that the two leaderships have fallen into, he warned. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/senet/00a301d560d0%24719916e0%2454cb44a0%24%40gmail.com.
