Reports of a change in US policy on partition of Kosovo are simply wrong, says Daniel Serwer

Daniel Serwer, a former State Department official who served as a U.S. special envoy in the Balkans, analysing the statements of the US Ambassador Greg Delawie, who was asked whether Washington supports partition of Kosovo, said that the Ambassador in his interview with Kosovo TV channel KTV did not mention partition at all. Media in Kosovo and Serbia reported on Friday that Delawie said that Washington was not rejecting the possibility that a division of territory could be discussed in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue.

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