Unacceptable: Romania has four conditions to return to negotiations

After sending the ROSU armed police units to northern Kosovo with the goal of monitoring the Government's decision to reciprocity on the issue of vehicle plates, Serbia's President, Aleksandar Vuciq, said clearly that it does not reason for dialogue to continue at this moment. He presented some conditions for continuing dialogue: for the European Union to show whether the Brussels agreement is under way or not, for armed police to withdraw from the north, that the decision against Ivan Todosijevic be annulled and that licenses be given to two Serbian electricity companies, writes Novosti, a familiar medium with the head of the Serbian state.

Serbia seeks the formation of the Serb majority municipalities' association, so the head of the Serbian state has asked the European Union if the agreement on it is still valid. This agreement was ratified also by the Kosovo Assembly. However, the Constitutional Court had found violations in some provisions of the agreement on forming association. This is considered unacceptable to Belgrade.

Belgrade has also repeatedly requested the licensing of two Serbian companies, “Electricity” and “EPSTovina” for electricity supply to northern Kosovo.

Serbia is also irritated by the Appeals Court's decision in Kosovo, which has confirmed the Constitutional Court's conviction in Pristina, under which the Kosovo Parliamentary MP from the Serb List, Ivan Todosijevic, was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of inciting hatred, division or national, racial, religious or ethnic failure, after he termed the Recak massacre fiction.

Todosijevic had declared in March 2019 that the “reasons for NATO's aggression has been the so-called humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo and the fabricated massacre of Recak”. His statement coincided with the 20th anniversary of the start of NATO bombings at the limits of the former Yugoslav Army, which ended the war in Kosovo. Serbia requires the annulment of this act.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Monday in the Kosovo Assembly that establishing the license plates of the Republic of Kosovo for all Serbian billboards has not been his wish, but we are pumping from the other side.

Kurti said this decision would be in effect until Kosovo citizens will pay for plates when they enter Serbia.

The “begs Serbian citizens to continue the daily without fear of being violated by any right. You are equal to us. The plates are not our wish, but we're pumping from the other side. As long as our citizens pay for plates when they enter Serbia, temporary plates will continue when they enter Kosovo”, Prime Minister Kurti has declared.

While yesterday, Kurti said he is willing to lift the reciprocity measure for the plates in case Serbia vows to do the same against Kosovo.

This measure is equal to what the state of Serbia applies to Kosovo for two decades. I have also made it known at the meeting that I have had with the QUINT ambassadors and with the chief of the EU mission, that Kosovo's decision is in the framework of law enforcement and I am willing at any time to remove this measure, if we have such a pledge from the Serbian side”, Kurti said.