Ederer: EU cannot afford to import unresolved conflict

BELGRADE - It is clear that the EU cannot afford to import another unresolved bilateral conflict through enlargement, Markus Ederer, State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Office, said in Belgrade on Tuesday.

Speaking at the conference "Deepening of the EU's Security and Defence Cooperation in a Multi-Speed Europe", organised by the International and Security Affairs Centre (ISAC), Ederer said that, despite the difficulties, he believed Serbia and Kosovo could solve their problems in a sustainable way and that both sides had an interest in doing so.