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Bislimi complains to Sorensen that Serbia does not accept Kosovo payments for Albanians in the Valley

2025-11-13 13:21:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Bislimi complains to Sorensen that Serbia does not accept Kosovo payments for

Kosovo's chief negotiator for the dialogue with Serbia, Besnik Bislimi, said on Thursday that he had informed the European Union's special envoy, Peter Sorensen, that a Serbian bank is not accepting the financial means that Kosovo is sending to help Albanians in southern Serbia.

In a Facebook post, Bislimi said that 3,650 Albanian children in the Presheva Valley are using 35,448 textbooks funded by the Kosovo Government, following the official request of the Albanian National Council (NKS) there.

However, he added, the corresponding payment of 304,511.16 euros, for the supply of textbooks, support for international advocacy activities and the institutional functioning of the ANC, has been blocked three times in a row by the receiving bank in Serbia.

 

"In all three cases, the transfer has been rejected. The funds are being rejected without any legal, technical or regulatory reason being given ," Bislimi stressed.

He said that this has become a serious issue that has taken on the character of a "systemic obstacle" to the rights of Albanians in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, which is why "I have notified Peter Sorensen today."

Bislimi called this a "deliberate administrative model aimed at hindering legal and transparent support for the Albanian community" in southern Serbia.

"The same approach was observed in the annulment of the ACA's decision on the agricultural subsidy program for Albanian farmers, despite the fact that all legal procedures and verifications had been fully completed. These actions are not isolated cases, but indicators of a structured approach of administrative obstruction ," he said.

Last year, Kosovo accused Serbia of obstructing financial support for farmers in the Presevo Valley, after the Kosovo Government had allocated 1 million euros in subsidies in the agricultural sector for Albanians there.

Albanians living in these three municipalities in southern Serbia often complain about discriminatory practices by the Serbian state, while officials in the Kosovo Government have echoed these accusations.

They have also been complaining for years about the invisibility of residential addresses and have protested several times this year demanding more rights.

Residents of the Valley and leaders of the municipalities there have repeatedly requested the presence of international mechanisms in order to monitor living conditions in that area.

But Serbia also accuses Kosovo of violating the rights of Serbs in the north of the country, after last year the Kosovo authorities banned the dinar and closed parallel Serbian institutions, which they consider illegal.

Serbia does not recognize Kosovo's independence, declared in 2008, and sees it as part of itself.

Belgrade finances all educational and health institutions in Serb-majority areas in Kosovo through the Serbian budget.

In the Brussels dialogue, now led by Sorensen, Kosovo and Serbia have reached several agreements since 2011, including one for the normalization of relations in 2023, but they have not been implemented./ REL





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