Western Balkans is deeply involved in the EU integration process, but there are a lot more obstacles before the region, some of them stemming from the period of the bloody Yugoslavia disintegration, Slovenia’s STA Agency assessed on Monday.

While analyzing 2010 events, the agency ascertained Serbia’s progress toward the EU, and pointed out that Belgrade demonstrated political maturity regarding the issue of Kosovo, whose independence it decidedly rejected.

According to STA, the maturity could be seen after the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague that the proclamation of Kosovo’s independence did not breach international law.

Despite the unfavourable decision for Serbia, the country did not exacerbate the problem, but instead harmonized the UN General Assembly Resolution on ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo with the EU, STA said, adding that Serbia also agreed to start a dialogue with Pristina.

The dialogue would be supervised by the EU, and it would relate to various technical issues (return of refugees, search for missing persons, traffic, and other), but not to the issue of Kosovo status.