Serbs in the North dare not buy Kosovo goods

The streets are quiet with few people moving.

Even today, the boycott has continued, not opening any locals, nor those elementaries, in protest of the 100 per cent tax Kosovo government has imposed goods from Serbia. The few citizens who moved, behind the cameras, have said that this whole situation is political, which they are not even wanting to talk about.

They have said they do not buy Albanian products, and that they are supplied with basics when they have learned that all stores will be closed.

In the north it is intended to present a poor state to citizens, through what they're calling humanitarian “crisis”, proving to be told that they no longer have what to supply, after the stop being done to goods from Serbia.

Yesterday, the Kosovo government in co-operation with Kosovo businesses has sent trucks to the north.

The Ministry of Commerce has declared there will be sales points in the north, where Serbian citizens can be supplied with elementary things. But the selling points have remained open in the north today only three hours.

From the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, they have declared that even today, in the three northern municipalities, three mobile points of food goods have been sent.

Minister Elhami Ismajli has said that citizens on this side have been supplied with food from these retail stations.

Even today the Ministry of Trade and Industry, in collaboration with local businesses, have sent three mobile points, with food goods in the north of the country, to offer citizens of the Republic of Kosovo opportunities to buy essential products. Mobile points have stood in three northern municipalities, Zubin Potok, Leposaviq, and North Mitrovica, where citizens of that part are supplied with food items. The event will continue until necessary, in the application of our state obligations to provide the conditions for the purchase of different products and in the north as in the entire market of the Republic of Kosovo”, Ismajli said via e-mail without telling why today the sales points have remained only three hours north.

Politicalologist Musa Preteni considers that the Kosovo Government's decision to bring in food products, and others needed for Serbian citizens in the north of the country, is the best answer.

The “this decision is the best response, but at the same time this decision by the Government of Kosovo scatters another element that war, if it can be called that, in the northern part of Kosovo has gone from a fight with other mechanisms in political and economic mechanisms. While Serbia uses the great control and pressure on northern Serbs who have been controlling them for 20 years now, the Government of Kosovo has responded to this decision in the right way through a decision by political means of economic means, in order to overcome even this situation, and what is most important to disfigure the true face in Serbia's case to testify that what is happening in Kosovo's north is a complete commitment because it has nothing to do with reality, but it is only an additional measure to increase pressure on the international community and therefore through the international community the institutions of Kosovo to remove the 911 tax, he says.

According to him, after this decision Belgrade will increase pressure on Serbs in the north, lest they buy the goods it has made available to the Government of Kosovo.

This decision is extremely suspicious if it is to be implemented in the form it is planned. We do not know whether Serbs will buy items that are in these shopping points because Serbia will increase the pressure of all forms on Serbs in this part of Kosovo”, he says.

The same situation as the north was yesterday, where all the bars were under lock. Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has also responded to the situation in the north today.

The so-called humanitarian crisis, Haradinaj, has called Serbia's president Alexander Vuciq's primitive scenario an idear of all this.

We have reached this scenario in time. It is a continuation of efforts at the table to divide Kosovo. Nothing is random. We will try to inform the northern Serbs that Kosovo comes to the aid of”, he said after the Government meeting.

Kosova Prerss had reported that Serbs are planning a humanitarian “crisis”, where citizens have nothing to live with. All of this comes in protest of the tax that Kosovo imposed on Serbia's goods, following campaigns it made in Kosovo's damage to foreign policy.