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The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, requested on Monday the annulment of the decision of the Central Bank of Kosovo (CBK) to ban the use of the Serbian dinar for cash payments in Kosovo.
His request came during a meeting with the special envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, in Belgrade.
Vucic said that he had a "constructive and very useful meeting" with Lajcak.
" I emphasized the necessity for the establishment of the Association of Serb-majority municipalities, for holding local elections in the north of Kosovo urgently, and I asked for support from the European Union to stop further provocations coming from Prishtina ," Vucic wrote in his profile on Instagram, after the meeting with Lajçak.
The Director of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, said earlier that Vučić requested that Prishtina not implement the new "escalating" decisions, among which, as he said, is the decision of the Central Bank of Kosovo to use only euros for cash payments in Kosovo.
" Aleksandar Vučič has clearly and well underlined what are the problems on the way to the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina ", said Petkovic.
The governor of the Central Bank of Kosovo (CBK), Ahmet Ismaili, said on Monday that the new regulation of the CBK does not prohibit or limit the acceptance of funds in bank accounts in euro currency in licensed banks, nor does it limit the exchange of any currency carried out by banking or non-banking financial institutions licensed by it.
" So, all citizens who already have a bank account in euros, in any licensed bank in Kosovo, can use the same to accept funds from any country ," he said.
Tomorrow, Lajcak will be in Pristina, where he will talk with Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi, Kosovo's chief negotiator in the Brussels dialogue.
Lajcak is making these visits to Belgrade and Pristina, after Brussels asked the authorities in Kosovo on Monday to postpone the implementation of the decision to ban the use of the Serbian dinar on the territory of Kosovo, in order to find a solution within the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.
The Government of Kosovo has argued that the CBK's decision is in accordance with the Constitution of Kosovo, but QUINT has said that this decision "raises concerns about the impact, in particular, on communities with a Serbian majority".
In Kosovo, in all Serbian-majority settlements, the population uses the Serbian dinar to make payments, and those who work in Serbian institutions in Kosovo also receive their salaries in dinars.
Pensions are also paid with dinars, according to the Serbian system, as well as child allowances and social benefits. In commercial facilities, in the areas where Serbs live in Kosovo, in addition to the euro, the dinar is also used./ REL
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