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Serbia’s chief negotiator, Petar Petkovic, said that in the absence of a permanent license plate agreement, the regime of sticking state symbols on license plates would continue.
Kosovo and Serbia failed to reach an agreement on license plates during a meeting held on April 21 in Brussels, the day the interim license agreement expired on September 30th.
“The agreement signed on September 30 is still in force. You need to be calm. No one needs to worry. The sticker regime agreement is still in force. “Until a lasting solution is found at a high level, the sticky paper regime will continue,” he said.
Petkovic accused Kosovo of not being ready for any proposal during the six months that the license plate working groups have been functioning. But such an accusation was made by the chief negotiator of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, who said that Serbia was not ready to accept any permanent solution for the license plates, nor did he accept that there is a deadline of 30 days to find a solution.
“If they did not succeed in six months, then can they do it in 30 days? “We care about peace and stability and we will do everything to protect the interests of our people, but also to move towards the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina,” Petkovic said after the meeting in Brussels.
Meanwhile, the chief negotiator of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, said that it is up to the heads of state how to proceed further, but added that “we will treat freedom of movement as the Serbian side treats.”
The EU special envoy for dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, has urged the parties to meet in the coming days to discuss the issue of license plates.
Today, April 21, Kosovo and Serbia expire to reach a final agreement regarding the license plates of Serbian and Kosovar vehicles entering and leaving the borders of the two countries.
On September 30 last year in Brussels an interim agreement was reached regarding the license plates, provided that a final agreement was reached within six months.
With the interim agreement, Kosovo and Serbia have agreed that the vehicles of the two countries, while circulating in each other’s territories, will cover the state symbols on license plates with white sticky papers.
The agreement was reached after several days of unrest in northern Kosovo, where some local Serbs had blocked roads, to oppose the then decision of the Government of Kosovo for reciprocity measures. With those measures, vehicles with Serbian license plates, upon entering the territory of Kosovo, had to place temporary license plates – similar to what the drivers of vehicles with Kosovo license plates did when they entered Serbia.
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