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Cryptocurrency News Articles
Kosovo reopens key border crossing with Serbia after months-long closure
Oct 07, 2024 at 11:49 pm
The reopening is in line with efforts by Western partners to promote reconciliation and co-operation between the two neighbouring Balkan nations.
Kosovo said on Monday it would reopen its main border crossing with Serbia for trade after closing it in June last year over what Pristina said were security concerns, a move that had threatened to derail Western efforts to improve ties between the Balkan neighbours.
Tensions flared in May last year when Kosovo police seized municipal buildings in Serb-majority communities in northern Kosovo, where residents had rejected the ethnic Albanian mayors elected in a vote boycotted by Serbs.
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said the Merdare border crossing would reopen with stepped-up, hands-on monitoring of goods by customs agents at a location just 300 metres from the border.
The other five border crossings would open once they can be equipped with new scanners, he said.
Kosovo cited the seizure of four large caches of weapons that Kurti said could have been brought through the border disguised as trade, as well as the movements of troops by Serbia near the border, as reasons for its move in June to curb cross-border trade.
“These were steps of security, never commercial ones,” Kurti told journalists on Monday.
Local media in Kosovo have reported that Germany warned Kosovo that unless it re-established trade it could be excluded from the Central European Free Trade Agreement and the Berlin Process, aimed at boosting co-operation among six western Balkan nations and the European Union.
Kosovo was a Serbian province until NATO’s 78-day bombing campaign in 1999 ended a war between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, which left about 13,000 dead, mainly ethnic Albanians, and pushed Serbian forces out. Kosovo proclaimed independence in 2008, which Serbia does not recognize.
The European Union and the United States are pressing both sides to implement agreements that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kurti reached in February and March last year.
They include a commitment by Kosovo to establish an Association of the Serb-Majority Municipalities. Serbia is also expected to deliver on the de-facto recognition of Kosovo, which Belgrade still considers its province.
The NATO-led international peacekeepers known as KFOR have increased their presence in Kosovo after last year’s tense moments.
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