Serbian businesses with state symbols at Pristina fair, MPJ reacts

Kosovo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has commented on the latest fair, in which goods of the region, including Serbia, were promoted.

In a media communique, MPJ has said that hyperbolisations through state symbols do not serve regional co-operation among Western Balkan countries.

The MPJ reminded Serbia that Kosovo is recognised by 2/3 of UN member states and several international organisations.

Read the complete MPJ communiqué:

In the spirit of the July 2017 Trieste Agreement, the admission in principle of the Regional Economic Zone of the Western Balkans, under which the region's development is aimed at, simultaneously, the Multi-year Action Plan has been adopted, which aims to enable free flow of goods, services, capital and high-qualification workforce; making the region more attractive for investment and trade; accelerating integration with the EU and thus bringing prosperity to Western Balkan citizens.

Fairs for promoting regional producers' goods at all fairs, such as Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, are being organised in this spirit.

The hiperisings of political nature through state or national symbols do not serve regional co-operation, furthermore, are attempts to demonstrate the intimate primacy or typical unbased protagonism, even in the launch of the economy, capital movement and goods, etc.

As we continue to have such trends in these kinds of events, we insist that even in fairs, representation formulas will be used as in the organisation of the six Western Balkan countries' high meetings.

MPJ, re-remembers our northern neighbour, that the new state of the Republic of Kosovo, which has already been recognised by almost two-thirds of the United Nations member states and that it is a full and equal member of more than 60 regional, European and International organisations, was born as a result of the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia, ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kosovo Albanians, and the foundation of its construction is citizens and multiethnic character, which is already accepted by the Serb community itself in Kosovo.