BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union on Monday will hold an emergency meeting with the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and the Prime Minister of Kosovo Albin Kurti to debate the rising tension between the 2 countries.
“I’m convening an emergency meeting of the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue tomorrow with Prime Minister @albinkurti and President @predsednikrs,” the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said in a tweet late on Sunday.
An almost two-year-long dispute over licence plates has stoked tensions between Serbia and its former breakaway province which declared independence in 2008 and is home to a Serb minority within the north backed by Belgrade.
Tons of of law enforcement officials, judges, prosecutors, and other state staff from the Serb minority quit their jobs earlier this month after the federal government in Pristina ruled that local Serbs must finally replace their automotive plates, issued by Serbia’s unrecognised authorities in Kosovo, with Kosovo state ones.
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