Bush and Merkel call for speedy transition from Unmik to Eulex

US President George Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel underscored, during a meeting in Berlin on Thursday, the need for a speedy transition from the UN mission in Kosovo to the EU mission, National Security Council Director for European Affairs Judy Ansley has said.

(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, June 12, 2008

"Concerning Kosovo and Serbia, they focused on two issues. Firstly, the importance of the speedy transition from the UN mission to the EU mission in Kosovo and we hope that this will happen very soon, maybe even this week,"Ansley told a press conference in the White House from Air Force One en route from Berlin to Rome.

Ansley said that the other major issue is the importance for the possibility of Serbia's integrations into EU and NATO to remain open.