They only lead to unnecessary tensions and should be withdrawn.” In a tweet on Wednesday, EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi urged both Kosovo and Serbia “to exercise restraint and deescalate the tensions, return to dialogue and ensure freedom of movement without delay. urged Kosovo and Serbia to “immediately, without any delay” exercise restraint and refrain from unilateral actions. The EU has facilitated a dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia since 2011 and helped to broker more than 30 agreements, but few of them have been applied. “They can organize whatever they want, I will not accept anything,” Vucic said in Budapest, Hungary, where he’s to attend a summit of right-wing European leaders. Vucic said Wednesday that there would be no European Union-mediated talks with Kosovo officials on the latest crisis until Kosovo’s special police units pull back from the border.

“Neither our state or citizens nor Kosovar Serbs or Serbia are interested in incidents and escalation (of tension),” said Kurti, blaming Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic as the “only one individual…interested in that. “Our offer is very practical, let’s lift the temporary plates, in Serbia and in Kosovo,” Kurti said at the government meeting. Kosovo authorities said a 2016 deal with Serbia reached in European Union-mediated talks had expired and now only official Kosovo symbols are valid. Tensions soared Monday when Kosovo special police with armored vehicles were sent to the border to impose the same rule of temporarily replacing Serb license plates from cars while they drive in Kosovo. Serbia considers its border with Kosovo as an “administrative” and temporary boundary.

Drivers need to pay five euros (nearly $6) for a 60-day temporary license plate. Serbia, which doesn’t recognize its former province of Kosovo as a separate nation, has for years been taking off registration plates from Kosovo-registered cars entering Serbia. The recent incident has raised fears that it may unleash much deeper tensions between the two Balkan neighbors. Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti called on Serbs to move vehicles away “because they are blocking themselves.” Small groups of Serbs spent the night in tents and they have blocked the roads to the Jarinje and Brnjak border crossings with trucks. PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) - Ethnic Serbs blocked the Kosovo-Serbia border for a third straight day Wednesday to protest a decision by Kosovo authorities to start removing Serbian license plates from cars entering the country.

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