Hoxhaj: Balkan borders are now fixed "and Kosovo should join UN"

Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj says that Kosovo should become a member of the UN at the end of the dialogue with Belgrade.

In an interview with the Vienna-based Standard newspaper, he said that Kosovo is "in the last stage of state formation."

Hoxhaj also thinks that technical issues should not be discussed anymore, and that the EU-sponsored dialogue should instead be brought to its final phase, where Kosovo would get its place in the UN, along with "mutual recognition of Serbia and Kosovo."

Speaking for the Austrian newspaper, Hoxhaj said that "without all that", the dialogue is "meaningless."

Therefore, it should be limited, both in content and in terms of time, he said.

He remarked that there are "countries in the world that do not recognize others - but they do not block the other's membership in the UN." Kosovo and Serbia are "neighbors,...