More than 10,000 Serbs received Kosovo passports from January 1st of this year until this week. According to Blerim Camaj, director of the Kosovo Agency for Civil Registration, requests are constantly increasing.
The former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Kosovo, Selam Shkodra, connects the desire of Serbs to acquire passports of the Republic of Kosovo with the European Union (EU)‘s decision to cancel visas for Serbs with, according to the Kosovo authorities, illegal passports issued by Serbia for Kosovo.
The EU has decided to cancel visas for Serbs with passports issued by Serbia for Kosovo.
However, Serbs in Kosovo are constantly getting a passport of the Republic of Kosovo.
Even, according to Blerim Camaj, director of the Agency for Civil Records, such a number was not expected.
“In total, in municipalities with a Serbian majority, which we consider the requests of Serbian citizens, from January 1st until today, over 10,000 citizens have received passports and the request is constantly increasing,” said Blerim Camaj, director of the Civil Registration Agency.
Among the northern municipalities, citizens of North Mitrovica municipality have the largest number of Kosovo passports, almost 2,000 of them.
On the other hand, the former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Kosovo, Selam Shkodra, says that Serbs should continue to ask for Kosovo passports, because he believes that the EU will understand that the decision on Serbian passports is wrong.
“I think it is a mistake of the EU that made such a move, but I believe that the reasonable heads of Serbs will not be affected by it, because I believe that this action or this decision will be temporary, and with further consultations with Kosovo citizenship, I think that this decision will also lose its force,” said Selam Shkodra, a former deputy minister of the interior, Klix.ba writes.
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