Pristina (BETAPHOTO/ANDRIJA IGIC)
Kosovo Premier Albin Kurti on Oct. 25 said that the deadline for replacing Serbian vehicle license plates with Kosovo ones would not be prolonged despite demands of the U.S. and the EU to postpone the deadline, expiring on Oct. 13 by ten months.
After the Western Balkan Summit, Kurti said he had been maintaining contact with KFOR, the U.S. ambassador and the State Department regarding license plates. He also said that these measures were not directed against the Serbs, but were rather to their benefit as “they cannot be equal citizens of Kosovo with different license plates.”
“The deadline has once been pushed back. Instead of Sept. 30, the deadline is Oct. 31, when all Kosovo citizens whose vehicles have obsolete license plates can replace them with legitimate ones. I call on citizen to replace such license plates with legitimate ones. A vast majority of the Serbs in Kosovo have replaced their license plates,” Kurti noted.
According to Kurti, a negative campaign and “crimes of violence originating from Belgrade” have been obstructing replacement of license plates. According to the latest figures of the Kosovo Interior Ministry, only 17 license plates have been replaced until six days left to the deadline.
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