The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, declared today that the proposal of the European Union on the issue of illegal Serbian license plates was unacceptable.

According to him, the EU’s proposal, that Kosovo should not start imposing fines, and that Serbia should not issue new license plates for Kosovo Serbs, is unacceptable “if it is not accompanied by the agreement that we urgently commit to a final agreement for the normalization of relations”.

“In the proposal brought to us earlier by the chief diplomat of the European Union, Josep Borrell and Lajcak for the joint statement, there was even a deadline of March 2023. So, we are coming here to Brussels to what was agreed towards a new course, for an agreement to be reached before March 2023”.

Kurti said that Borrell “gave up this deadline” and “the EU proposal for the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia”.

“I am ready to hold meetings always with the same structure and order: the final agreement with full normalization of relations, which has mutual recognition at the center, and current issues of different natures, such as the issue of these license plates. However, one cannot do without the other”, said Kurti.

He made these comments after the meeting he held on Monday in Brussels with the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, and the mediators of the European Union.