---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 10709"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "10709"
heading: "Relations between Kosovo and Serbia"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/10709"
units:
  - "Chapter 114 — Western Balkans Democracy and Prosperity"
---

# §10709. Relations between Kosovo and Serbia

- (a) **Sense of Congress—** 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)](#a-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](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) a comprehensive final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia based on mutual recognition.
- (b) **Statement of policy—** 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](/usc/22/10703.md?p=3) as a means to settle disputes between nation states in the region; and
  - (2) it should [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) pluralistic democracies in countries in the [Western Balkans](/usc/22/10703.md?p=3) as a means to prevent a return to the ethnic strife that once characterized the region.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXIII, § 8340, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1877.)