"Kosovo stamped passports rejected"

Serbian border guards near Preševo are turning back anyone whose passport contains a Kosovo stamp, writes a Skopje daily.

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Tuesday, 02.09.2008.

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Serbian border guards near Presevo are turning back anyone whose passport contains a Kosovo stamp, writes a Skopje daily. In an article entitled “Serbia lowering ramp for passports with Kosovo stamps”, daily Dnevnik claims that over the summer, tourists were turned back that had been on vacation in Montenegro, but wanted to take a short-cut through Kosovo. "Kosovo stamped passports rejected" “We’re collecting all passports to see the number of citizens turned back, in order to react appropriately,” said Director of Consular Affairs in the Macedonian Foreign Ministry Refet Hajdari. The Macedonian border police has not so far kept a record of the number of citizens turned back. Following the unilateral declaration of Kosovo independence and the introduction of stamps, the Serbian authorities announced that they would invalidate stamps and turn citizens back from borders. Transporters coming from Kosovo looking to enter Serbia have the biggest problems, and, according to the paper, they “frequently plead with the Kosovo frontier authorities not to put a stamp in their passport to avoid problems.” “Also on the receiving end are foreign nationals wishing to travel to the EU via Kosovo and Serbia,” writes the daily. Dnevnik states that it has still not received any response from the Serbian Foreign Ministry as to whether non-recognition of Kosovo stamps and prohibiting entry to those with them was Belgrade’s official position, “or if this was a customs service initiative”. The daily quotes unnamed sources in the Serbian embassy in Skopje who say that as far as Serbia is concerned, there are only two border crossings into Macedonia: Tabanovce-Presevo and the crossing near the Prohor Pcinjiski Monastery.

"Kosovo stamped passports rejected"

“We’re collecting all passports to see the number of citizens turned back, in order to react appropriately,” said Director of Consular Affairs in the Macedonian Foreign Ministry Refet Hajdari.

The Macedonian border police has not so far kept a record of the number of citizens turned back. Following the unilateral declaration of Kosovo independence and the introduction of stamps, the Serbian authorities announced that they would invalidate stamps and turn citizens back from borders.

Transporters coming from Kosovo looking to enter Serbia have the biggest problems, and, according to the paper, they “frequently plead with the Kosovo frontier authorities not to put a stamp in their passport to avoid problems.”

“Also on the receiving end are foreign nationals wishing to travel to the EU via Kosovo and Serbia,” writes the daily.

Dnevnik states that it has still not received any response from the Serbian Foreign Ministry as to whether non-recognition of Kosovo stamps and prohibiting entry to those with them was Belgrade’s official position, “or if this was a customs service initiative”.

The daily quotes unnamed sources in the Serbian embassy in Skopje who say that as far as Serbia is concerned, there are only two border crossings into Macedonia: Tabanovce-Preševo and the crossing near the Prohor Pčinjiski Monastery.

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