Border Crisis Ends as Kosovo-Serbia Reach Deal on Reciprocity Issue

An agreement was reached this Wednesday afternoon between Kosovo and Serbia in Brussels, ending the stalemate and tensions that continued for days at the border crossings of the two countries, due to the reciprocity of license plates.

This agreement came after the envoy from the European Union for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, held this afternoon separate meetings with the representatives of Kosovo, Besnik Bislim, and that of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, to discuss the topic of the northern Kosovo.

At the end of the meeting, it was the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, who announced that an agreement has been reached regarding license plates reciprocity.

"We have tried to force Serbia to remove the procedures for the citizens of Kosovo to move towards Serbia. And I think that has been the result of today, we can say that it is a deal.

Of course, we would prefer that there be no barrier and that these two countries today fully recognize the tables of other countries, this will be the main objective of the working group that we will establish and which will begin to meet from date 21 October.

We agree on all points. The only point where the Serbian side has not yet given its consent has to do with cars with license plates (KM - for North Mitrovica), which they think stickers should not be applied, and I think this is absurd for reason that they are illegal signs", said Bislimi.