Bosnia to report Kosovo over customs seal
Bosnian Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Minister Mladen Zirojevic says his country would report Kosovo to the EU for violating the CEFTA agreement.
(KosovoCompromise staff) Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Zirojevic made this statement after the Kosovo government reported Bosnia and Serbia to the European Commission claiming that these two countries are in fact violating the regional free trade agreement, after Belgrade and Sarajevo decided to refuse duty-free import of goods bearing the seal of the Kosovo customs, Sarajevo paper Dnevni Avaz reported.
Pristina announced it would ask for EU help "so that Sarajevo and Belgrade should accept the Kosovo seal", but Zirojevic set out that the Kosovo authorities have violated CEFTA, "because they changed the customs seal and replaced the UNMIK seal with that of Kosovo".
"We cannot accept this, because we have not agreed to this. Countries that have recognized the independence of Kosovo agree to this, but we cannot," Zirojevic.
