(20 Sep 2021) Tensions continued on Monday at the border between Kosovo and Serbia, as Kosovo deployed additional police to implement a rule to remove Serbian license plates from cars entering Kosovo.
Kosovo special police with armoured vehicles were sent to the border as hundreds of Kosovo Serbs reportedly drove to the border in their cars and trucks, blocking a road leading to one of the crossing points in protest.
Serbia's police have for years been taking off registration plates from Kosovo-registered cars entering Serbia, and the latest move by Kosovo authorities appears to be a tit-for-tat move.
Serbia doesn't recognize its former province of Kosovo as a separate state and considers the mutual border only as an "administrative" and temporary boundary.
Kosovo officials said that as of Monday, license plates issued in Serbia will be replaced with temporary ones and that the additional police were deployed to implement the "reciprocity" action.
The two sides agreed in European Union-mediated talks in 2014 to allow free traffic.
However, Kosovo officials said the deal has expired and only proper Kosovo symbols are now valid in the territory.
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