The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has appointed Danish diplomat Peter Sorensen as the EU Special Representative for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue.
Sorensen will replace Miroslav Lajcak, whose mandate has been extended several times. The appointment of special representatives is made by the head of the bloc's diplomacy, but it must also be confirmed by the member states in the EU Council. Sorensen is due to officially take up the post on February 1.
Peter Sorensen is a career diplomat with extensive experience in the Western Balkans. From 2006 to 2010, he was the personal representative in Belgrade of the then EU High Representative. From 2002 to 2006, he was Vice President of the UNMIK's Reconstruction and Economic Development Programme in Pristina, and from 2001 to 2002 he served as Senior Adviser to the UN Special Representative in Pristina.
In 2000, Sorensen also served as legal advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Balkans. He also served as Head of the EU Delegation in Skopje and as EU Special Envoy and Head of the EU Delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In the 1990s, he also worked as a political adviser and observer in the European Community Monitoring Mission in the former Yugoslavia and then in the OSCE mission in Croatia. | BGNES
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