SERBIA AND KOSOVO HAVE SETTLED THEIR DISPUTE OVER CROSS-BORDER MOVEMENT OF CITIZENS: EU

Sat 27 August 2022:

Josep Borrell, the head of the EU’s foreign policy, said on Saturday that an ethnic dispute between Serbia and Kosovo over the flow of citizens across their border has been resolved.

“We have a deal,” Borrell said in a tweet. “Under the EU-facilitated Dialogue, Serbia agreed to abolish entry/exit documents for Kosovo ID holders and Kosovo agreed to not introduce them for Serbian ID holders.”

“Kosovo Serbs, as well as all other citizens, will be able to travel freely between Kosovo & Serbia using their ID cards. The EU just received guarantees from PM (Albin) Kurti to this end,” he wrote.

The disagreement arose from Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia, which Belgrade has refused to recognize. Kosovo is primarily made up of ethnic Albanians.

Belgrade and Kosovo’s concentrated Serb minority in the north of the country assert entitlement to an association of semi-autonomous majority-Serb municipalities under a 2013 agreement, which Pristina has refused to implement.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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