Rupel: EU Should Take Charge of Balkan Stabilisation Process

Brussels, 12 February - Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel wrote Monday that it was "high time for the EU to assume the ownership of the Western Balkan stabilisation process". This means boosting the democratic forces in Serbia, resolving the Kosovo issue, and moving Macedonia onto the accession track, Rupel says in a commentary for EUobserver.

Ljubljana, Brussels Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to (left to right) Slovak FM Jan Kubis, Latvia's Artis Pabriks, Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Austrian FM Ursula Plassnik ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels
Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to (left to right) Slovak FM Jan Kubis, Latvia's Artis Pabriks, Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Austrian FM Ursula Plassnik ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to Slovak FM Jan Kubis (left) and Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels
Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to Slovak FM Jan Kubis (left) and Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to Austrian counterpart Ursula Plassnik (left) and Sweden's Carl Bildt (centre) ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels
Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to Austrian counterpart Ursula Plassnik (left) and Sweden's Carl Bildt (centre) ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to(left to right) Hungarian counterpart Kinga Goncz, Austria's Ursula Plassnik and Sweden's Carl Bildt ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels
Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to(left to right) Hungarian counterpart Kinga Goncz, Austria's Ursula Plassnik and Sweden's Carl Bildt ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to Austrian counterpart Ursula Plassnik (left) ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Ljubljana, Brussels
Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (right) talks to Austrian counterpart Ursula Plassnik (left) ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

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