Hill in Bujanovac: The Brussels agreement concerns Belgrade and Pristina, not the Albanian minority in Serbia

US Ambassador, Christopher Hill, said today in Bujanovac that the US did not support the demands of Albanians from the south of Serbia; they were against reciprocity in relation to the rights of the Serbs in Kosovo, as well as the establishment of a community of Albanian municipalities in the south of Serbia, Bujanovacke reports.

Hill pointed out that the Brussels Agreement concerned Kosovo, not the issues of minorities in Serbia.

"I have to be very clear when I say that the dialogue in Brussels is about solving the problems between Pristina and Belgrade. The purpose of the dialogue is not to solve any other issues, the issues of minorities here or in other parts of the country," Hill said.

The ambassador stressed that the issue of the Albanian minority in Serbia was exclusively a matter for the state of Serbia and reiterated that "it has nothing to do with the Brussels dialogue".

According to him, the official policy of the US was to support the Brussels dialogue and the reached agreement, a significant part of which was the establishment of the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities.

“The agreement, which was reached, has no intention of crossing borders," the ambassador stressed.

When asked by journalists about the letter of American congressmen who, after meeting with Albanian politicians from Bujanovac and Presevo, asked US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to form a community of Albanian municipalities, the ambassador said that he respected what the congressmen said, but that such a community was not part of the Brussels Agreement.