13 minutes agoBorrell confirms agreement allowing illegal plates for another year in Kosovo
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)“I am pleased to announce that the chief negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia, under the ease of the EU, have agreed on the measures, to avoid further escalation and to concentrate fully on the proposal for normalising relations between them”, Borrell wrote on Twitter. “Serbia will ban issuing plates with the city appointments [...]
Serbia will stop issuing plates with the appointments of Kosovo cities, and Kosovo will interrupt further actions regarding the reregistering of vehicles. I will invite the parties in the coming days to discuss the next steps. I thank special representative Miroslav Lajcak for the hard work of”, he added.
The two states' chief negotiators have met in Brussels on Wednesday at a meeting that has lasted more than six hours of discussions on the last day of the additional deadline for the agreement on the license, before Kosovo starts punishing drivers with illegal license plates in cars.
Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi has met with Petar Petkov, under the mediation of the European Union's envoy for dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak.
At the request of the US, Kosovo had postponed the implementation of the second phase of the decision to reregister cars with Serbian illegal license plates at the Kosovo Republic for 48 hours.
The first phase envisioned reproof, the second envisioned the pronunciation of the fine, and was later scheduled to set up some proving plates. Under the Government's decision, after April 21st, there should no longer be vehicles with such plates that Serbian authorities issue.
Serbia, which has issued illegal license plates to Kosovo Serbs since post-war in 1999, opposes this plan by insisting on neutral plates to Kosovo status. As a result of mounting tensions, Kosovo's northern Serbs, mostly including vehicles with illegal license plates, have resigned from Kosovo institutions.
