Freedom of movement deal covers Belgrade airport

Freedom of movement deal covers Belgrade airport

BELGRADE -- Belgrade and Priština working groups agreed to expand the freedom of movement agreement to Belgrade's Nikola Tesla airport and a number of border crossings.

The crossings include those leading to Bulgaria and Macedonia, head of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Marko Đurić said on Wednesday.

The agreement was made in Brussels on Tuesday and will allow those with personal identification cards, but not passports, issued by the provisional authorities in Priština to cross the border at a number of additional places while in transit, he told a news conference.

These are the crossings at the Belgrade airport and a number of others, he pointed out, adding that people with identification papers issued by the Kosovo authorities had already been able to cross at other points along the border with Hungary and Croatia while in transit.

"This will include Bulgaria and Macedonia in two months, once the technical requirements are met," he explained.

This does not require any other identification papers except those issued by Serbia while in Serbia's territory, he noted.

The situation is perfectly clear in terms of identification papers, because Serbian citizens use Serbian passports in Serbia, weather they come from Kosovo or not, he explained.

"Kosovo is run by provisional authorities and they have been issuing various forms of identification documents since 1999, including UNMIK personal IDs and now those issued by the provisional government in Priština," Đurić said.

Those with those papers have so far been able to use two border crossings, one leading to Hungary and the other to Croatia, and now they will...