No agreement has been reached between Belgrade and Pristina

Photo: Tanjug/Sava Radovanovic

No agreement has been reached between Belgrade and Pristina regarding license plates, the information about that coming from the Pristina media is false.

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"No agreement has been reached on license plates or the return of Serbs to the (Pristina) institutions, as the media in Pristina are trying to spread that propaganda, while some Belgrade media report it.

This is nothing but run-of-the-mill disinformation and dissemination of fake news with the aim of Pristina removing responsibility for the violation of all agreements from itself," says the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

Back in October, the government of so-called Kosovo said that from November 1 to 21, the Serbs who have not re-registered their vehicles to "RKS" plates will be given a warning, while fines will be in effect until January 21, when the "old" license plates will be definitively canceled.

In this way, Albin Kurti refused to accept the request of the US and the representatives of the Quint states (US, France, Germany, Italy, UK), who asked him to postpone the decision by 10 months.

During a meeting of so-called Kosovo's government, it was decided that from January 21 to April 21, the Serbs will use trial plates, and after that, no other license plates will be allowed in Kosovo except "RKS" ones.

Kurti, who heads the government in Pristina, said that this decision envisages the sequence and escalation of sanctions, that is, those who do not implement it will be issued reprimands first, over a period of three weeks.

Such decisions caused strong reactions, the Serbs started to leave Pristina institutions, and the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija specifically pointed to Albin Kurti's statement made in Berlin that he would never form the Community of Serb Municipalities, ZSO (a provision of the Brussels Agreement).

Another point Petkovic made was the illegal and unlawful sacking of Nenad Djuric only because he did not want to issue warnings to his fellow Serbs. In this way, Kurti directly mocked the Brussels Agreement and the European Union, which is the guarantor of the implementation of the said signed agreement, said Petkovic and added:

"Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija have suffered for too long both physical and institutional violence at the hands of Albin Kurti and Pristina. They were forbidden to vote in the elections, in a referendum, to be vaccinated in Kosovo and Metohija at the peak of the Covid 19 pandemic, special units made incursions into the north of the province every day against of all agreements, and on top of all that, our people have been waiting for 10 years for the ZSO to be formed."

He underlined that leaving Pristina's institutions is not a move by which the Serbs want to destroy or cancel the Brussels Agreement, but to fight for this document to be respected, as each of them have for a full 10 years respected all the obligations stemming from it.

"Serbs are not threatening anyone, they just want to live in peace in their centuries-old homes and for their human rights to be respected, and with their moral act they defended the Brussels Agreement, but also international public law," said the director of the Office.

(Telegraf.rs)