After almost 14 years of having fully established its institutions, the nation of Kosovo is still using Serbian IP addresses.

According to several local businesses, this has become a cause for huge concern due to outer interventions in the market and damages that are coming from their competition, causing many unfavorable consequences.

“This concern has been brought up by businesses and the media sector, who have complained because, with the use of Serbian IP addresses, ads showing up in the different portals and on web pages are in the same language as their IP address. When using Serbian IPs, the language isn’t Albanian, but Serbian. This is, in turn, hurting businesses but also the country because it’s identifying us with another country that is in reality also hurting the sovereignty of the Republic of Kosovo,” – emphasized the head of the Board of Kosovo’s Transactions Chamber, Skander Krasniqi.

MP of AAK, who is also a member of the parliamentary commission on the economy, Pal Lekaj told KosovaPress that he has made an urgent request to have the issue of Serbian IPs addressed immediately, because their use from Serbia, risks the security and privacy of the citizens of Kosovo.