11 minutes agoHow it came to stop travelling with Serbian passport on Kosovo border
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Days ago, Serbian media have reported that the Kosovo Directorate of Border Police has made a decision without the approval of the Kosovo Ministry of Internal Affairs not to allow and accept the passports of the Republic of Serbia. In this situation, citizens of Serbia are unable to enter Kosovo if they use Serbia's passport [...]
In this situation, citizens of Serbia are unable to enter Kosovo if they use Serbia's passport as identification documents to travel. They can only travel to Kosovo with Serbia's ID, as the third point of the Brussels Free Movement Agreement predicts.
According to Kosovo Police spokesman Baki Kelani, only the Brussels Agreement for Freedom of Movement is being implemented.
The “border crossing movement between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia is regulated with the 2011 Freedom of Movement Agreement. Kosovo police have acted and continue to comply. We only implement the” agreement, he says.
And from the Kosovo Interior Ministry's media office, it is reportedly not a decision by the government. But the Brussels Free Movement Agreement is only being implemented.
The third point of the Free Movement Agreement envisions each side implementing a system, where IDs will be accompanied by subx0 access to” documents for persons from the other side, who want to transition to a third state.
The same agreement has been applied since 2011 to Kosovo citizens, who want to travel to the Republic of Serbia with their passports.
