"Recognition" or "sanctions" that is the question

According to Tanjug, it will be an opportunity to clarify the positions of both sides on issues focused in two words, to which the Pristina media reduced the messages of a US official in Pristina: "recognition" and "sanctions".
The first - recognition - he cited, as reported by the Albanian-language media, as a condition without which Serbia would never enter the European Union, though the statement quoted him as saying - "without solving the problem with Kosovo".
It is not expected from Pristina to do anything special, it is evident from Palmer's talks with politicians there, except that the US, he said, is "encouraging the new Kosovo government to strengthen its dialogue plan with Serbia" ... whatever that means.
In the meantime, Palmer referred to "sanctions," something that has not been heard for a long time, at least not publicly and explicitly: "The procurement of Russian weapons by Serbia poses a risk of imposing a sanction and we hope that our Serbian partners will be careful about any transactions of this kind", Palmer emphasized in an interview with Macedonian television Alsat M.
Speaking about Serbia's being conditioned in order to reach EU membership, President Vucic said that he followed all Palmer statements with great care and knew that he was a top professional, who does his job directly in accordance with State Department and US policies. Still, he said, he was surprised by the fact that in both Pristina and Skopje, Palmer spoke essentially only about Belgrade's obligations, and never mentioned Pristina's obligations.
"If everything is exactly as Matthew Palmer said in Kosovo, where I expected that they would seek to lower expectations of the Pristina authorities and indicate that a compromise was needed, then I...