Serbia's chief negotiator, Petar Petkovic, said that in the absence of a permanent agreement on license plates, the regime of covering state symbols on license plates with stickers will continue.
Kosovo and Serbia failed to reach an agreement on license plates during the meeting held on April 21 in Brussels, on the day when the temporary agreement on license plates, which was reached on September 30, expires.
"The agreement signed on September 30 is still in force. You must be calm. No one should worry. The agreement on the sticker regime is still in force. "Until a sustainable solution is found at a high level, the sticky-note regime will continue," he said.
Petkovic accused Kosovo of not being ready for any proposal during the six months that the license plate working groups have been operating. However, the chief negotiator of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, made such an accusation, who said that Serbia was not ready to accept any permanent solution for license plates and did not even accept that there should be a deadline of 30 days to find a solution.
"If they didn't make it in six months, then can they make it in 30 days? We care about peace and stability and we will do everything to protect the interests of our people, but also to go towards the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina", said Petkovic after the meeting in Brussels.
Meanwhile, the chief negotiator of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, said that it remains up to the heads of state how to proceed, but added that "we will treat the freedom of movement as the Serbian side treats it".
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