Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§10709 Relations between Kosovo and Serbia

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 114— - WESTERN BALKANS DEMOCRACY AND PROSPERITY › § 10709

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress thinks the EU-brokered agreement Kosovo and Serbia signed on February 27, 2023 is a positive step. It urges both countries to quickly work on the Implementation Annex. After enough progress, the United States should consider closer ties with each country, such as starting strategic talks and boosting economic ties and investment. Congress supports a final agreement based on mutual recognition. U.S. policy says the United States will not support land swaps, partition, or redrawing borders along ethnic lines in the Western Balkans. It will back pluralistic democracies there to help prevent a return of ethnic conflict.

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Title 22, §10709

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(a)It is the sense of Congress that—

(1)the Agreement on the Path to Normalization of Relations, which was agreed to by Kosovo and Serbia on February 27, 2023, with the facilitation of the European Union, is a positive step forward in advancing normalization between the two countries;

(2)Serbia and Kosovo should seek to make immediate progress on the Implementation Annex to the agreement referred to in paragraph (1);

(3)once sufficient progress has been made on the Implementation Annex, the United States should consider advancing initiatives to strengthen bilateral relations with both countries, which could include—

(A)establishing bilateral strategic dialogues with Kosovo and Serbia; and

(B)advancing concrete initiatives to deepen economic ties and investment with both countries; and

(4)the United States should continue to support a comprehensive final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia based on mutual recognition.

(b)It is the policy of the United States Government that—

(1)it shall not pursue any policy that advocates for land swaps, partition, or other forms of redrawing borders along ethnic lines in the Western Balkans as a means to settle disputes between nation states in the region; and

(2)it should support pluralistic democracies in countries in the Western Balkans as a means to prevent a return to the ethnic strife that once characterized the region.

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22 U.S.C. § 10709

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73