Balkan expert: This is also agreed upon with the pressure of America

Daniel Serwer, Professor at Washington State University John Hopkins also notes that citizens will benefit most from the introduction of the airline.
Serwer, who is an expert on the Balkans, tells 'Voice of America' that this "new impulse" should outweigh the current political circumstances in Kosovo and that Belgrade and Pristina will return to the negotiating table when the Pristina government is elected.
"And then a new problem will emerge - the election period and the campaign in Serbia. This could all slow down the more significant progress in the two-party talks. Moreover, dialogue is a EU-mediated process, involving Americans from time to time. Sure that such an interaction will always produce the best results", Serwer says.
He also believes that a principled agreement to set up an airline would make travel much easier, but warns that it has yet to be seen how it will be implemented. "If we go deeper, we can conclude that the agreement was reached with exclusively US mediation. And without Europeans, in consultation with NATO, it seems that there was no form of European Union involvement, or concerted action by America and the EU," Serwer said.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg greeted the agreement as "an important step, which will make the circulation of people and goods easier and faster within the Western Balkans region".
Serwer also believes that there has been a clear disagreement between US Special Envoy for Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue Richard Grenell, who attended the signing of a letter of intent to renew the airline, with representatives of European integration process participants. "Any result achieved without EU participants interfering with it will be very good. Because, European Union has a much firmer stance...