Some progress is made in the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on the normalisation of relations, but both sides are interested only to regulate economic relationship, Richard Grenell, the US President's special envoy for the talks has told an American radio, the Srna news agency reported on Wednesday.

Speaking to Hugh Hewitt, an American radio talk show host with the Salem Radio Network, Grenell said some small agreements were reached in the dialogue, but that both sides had a long way ahead in trying to normalise all the relations.    

Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, also said that Trump asked him first to make a kind of an opinion poll to learn if Belgrade and Pristina were interested in any agreement.    

“What I've learned in the talks to both sides and the private sector is that they only want to normalise the economic relations,” Grenell said, adding his first meeting was with the business community members.    

He also said that Washington had realised that the first thing to do was to re-establish air, railway and road transport, so the starting point was to organise the first direct flight from Pristina to Belgrade after 21 years.

Grenell pointed out that Trump's administration “in its usual way, is trying to push the two sides toward reconciliation, without imposing its ideas on them.”

He added the administration wanted to ask Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and his Kosovo's counterpart Hashim Thaci, as well as newly elected Prime Minister Albin Kurti whether they had the political will to go forward, create new jobs for young people and really change the economy.