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🔴 | Kosovo police announced on Sunday late afternoon that it closed the border for travelers’ passage in the Jarinje and Bernjak, on the border with Serbia, due to the blockades of the roads leading to these crossing points.

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Kosovo and Serbia did not manage to sign an agreement under the EU mediated dialogue, on licence plates dispute.

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Head of Serbian Office for Kosovo Petar Petkovic said earlier today that Kosovo decisions about Serbian ID and car plates are “unacceptable” for Serbia

“It is trampling and breaking of all agreements”, he told media after meeting with Kosovo Serb representatives in Serbia.

This is happening the day before the implementation of Kosovo's reciprocity measures on Serbian licence plates. Starting tomorow, plates will need to be covered with stickers at the border and IDs replaced with temporary forms, as 🇽🇰 citiziens are obliged to do when entering 🇷🇸

Kosovo police announced that in some location in the Serb majority North Kosovo shootings "some in the direction of police units" have been heard. Police director Samedin Mehmeti told BIRN "there are no wounded".

🇽🇰 police announced that several citizens have reported cases where Kosovo Albanians have been "stopped and mistreated... causing injuries and material damages to their vehicles by peole suspected to be part of the organizing of road blockades," in the Serb majority North 🇽🇰

The Kosovo police on the main road that leads to Leposavic

Photo: Adeline Ahmeti/BIRN

In the video, the armored vehicles of the Kosovo Police Special Unit deployed at the "Belvedere" Police camp in South Mitrovica.

video: Shkodrane Dakaj/BIRN

The mayor of South Mitrovica, Bedri Hamzaj, told local Kosovo broadcaster TV1 “Regarding the south, the situation is under control. There is no provocation".

#NATO mission in #Kosovo, @NATO_KFOR, just pledged in a press release that it is “prepared to intervene if stability is jeopardized in the North of Kosovo”.

Kosovo President @VjosaOsmaniPRKS called on Kosovo Serbs not to fall prey of “Belgrade propaganda” claiming the reciprocity measure is in favor of all citizens. “The attempts of @avucic for the destabilization of 🇽🇰, who is being served by methods of his mentor Putin, will fail”.

The US ambassador to Kosovo Jeffrey Hovenier told the media the decisions on reciprocity on licence plates and IDs are in line with the dialogue with Serbia, however, he asked Kosovo Albin Kurti led government to postpone the implementation for 30 days.

"I have asked the Kurti government to postpone the implementation of this decision for 30 days. We do not support the establishment of barricades, the way of dialogue between the parties must be found," Hovenier told media after a meeting with Kurti and 🇽🇰 President Vjosa Osmani.

#Kosovo government announced in a press release that it decided to postpone the reciprocity decisions on license plates and Serbian issued IDs for one month, until Sept 1, 2022, after Kosovo Serbs blocked the roads to Jarinje and Bernjak border crossings with 🇷🇸
#KosovoSerbia

Serbian president @avucic said KFOR commander will meet Srpska lista president Goran Rakic at midnight in north part of Mitrovica.

“I hope that this will be de-escalated tomorrow and that we will reach peace with new compromise solutions”, he told Pink television via telephone.

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