Kosovo Official: There Was No Will to Carry Out Decisions on License Plates, Documents Before

Besnik Bislimi (Photo: Prt.Scr)

Besnik Bislimi, head of the Kosovo delegation to the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue, said on Aug. 5 that the implementation of an agreement on license plates and personal documents should have begun in 2011 and 2018, but that there was no will for it on the Kosovo side.

"The decisions were signed in Brussels, which Serbia unilaterally implemented," Bislimi told RTK in an interview. An entry-exit document that Pristina wanted to introduce starting Aug. 1 should have taken effect in August 2011, Bislimi explained, stressing that Pristina hesitated and did not show a readiness to carry it out.

As for the decision on vehicle registration, more specifically replacing plates with the names of Kosovo towns issued by the Serbian Interior Ministry with RKS plates, the Brussels Agreements state that the process should have been completed by Jan. 15, 2018, Bislimi said. "The decisions are a consequence of the incompetence and lack of readiness of previous cabinets to carry out what they themselves signed in Brussels," he said.

When it comes to the Serbian side, he said, one should bear in mind that "all of the unrest orchestrated by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in the countries in the region is masked by the idea of supposed local civic revolt." "Now it has been made clear to everyone that there is no rebellion by citizens here, that they are actually rebellions orchestrated by a center in Belgrade and Vucic himself," Bislimi said.