10 minutes agoKosovo does not recognise Serbian passport, only ID
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The entry and exit of Serbia's state to Kosovo and vice versa only comes true with identification, government officials have said on the run after the concerns of some Serbian citizens living in Kosovo, that border police are not allowing circulation with Serbian passports. According to them, this is based on agreements reached on [...]
According to them, this is based on agreements reached in Brussels for free movement achieved between Pristina and Belgrade in July 2011.
Interior Affairs Minister Ekrem Mustafa, in a proposal for Radio Free Europe, confirms that during the circulation only identification can be used, but does not deny the fact that there have been attempts to pass even more Serbian passports, issued by the Co-ordination Directorate at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia.
In these cases, the Border Directorate has been interviewed because according to travel data it happened with the passport. The passport is not known as a travel document between these two states under the agreement that Brussels”, Mustafa has said.
The agreement for free movement states that the “citizens (with permanent settlements) of both sides should be able to travel freely inside or through each other's territory and at border points to circulate only by ID. ”
This has happened to Radio Europe Free in the Serbian language journalist Zarko Radoja, who crossed the border Tuesday evening between Kosovo and Serbia.
The “cause of information that I have heard prevents people from passing through the passport to Kosovo, I have shown the passport to see his reaction. The policeman asked me if I happen to have ID with myself. I told him I did, but I asked him, why, if I have my passport. He told me it was better to pass with ID, and then he told me to inform everyone I know that they will carry IDs because they cannot get in or leave Kosovo with Serbian passport”, Radoja says.
Bogoljub Marinkovic, owner of the <x0 Transport Agency, also KimCo” from Gracanica, which circulates in direction Gracanica- Belgrade says travellers cannot circulate with passport.
“not only passports that have been issued for Kosovo but also with Serbian passports. With a Serbian passport, he cannot enter Kosovo, he can write an ID, the children can enter with a certificate of photographs, but with a passport they cannot. We first inform them not to travel if they have a Serbian passport. Serbian Interior Ministry's issued passports do not apply in Kosovo”, Marinkovic has said.
Otherwise, in 2009 when Serbia was defeated by visa liberalisation, Serbia then adopted the regulation with which all those with residence in Kosovo, travel documents were issued by the Co-ordination Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia in Belgrade, which in Kosovo are considered non-valid.
Their owners cannot travel without visas to EU countries.
Former Kosovo Minister for Dialogue Edita Tahiri says the passports of Serbian citizens issued by parallel structures are unvalid. As for the circulation, it says that Kosovo implements agreements for free movement, which are possible only through ID and not passport.
When Kosovo citizens travel to Serbia's airports for third countries, passports are recognised and when leaving Serbia as a transit country, their passports are verified exits. As far as citizens of Serbia are concerned, with permission of the announcement they may enter Kosovo. If they use Pristina Airport to go somewhere, they must have their passport, while these illegal passports issued by parallel mechanization (Coordination Director at Serbia's MPB) are not valid, are illegal and are not accepted”, Tahiri told Radio Free Europe.
Serbia's prime minister, Ana Brnabiq, has reacted to this, saying that the entry stop with Serbian passports is the best indication that in this “-state” is unknown “who drinks and who pays
