Starting from May 2017, Serbian citizens residing in Kosovo are forbidden to pass borders with passports issued by Coordination Directorate of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic of Serbia. Coordination Directorate started issuing passports in August 2009 exclusively for citizens of Serbia with residence in Kosovo and the main characteristic of these passports is that they are excluded from visa-free regime which was approved for citizens of Serbia back in 2009.
Next to the fact that passports issued for Serbian citizens with residence in Kosovo made them second-class citizens, discriminated based on the place of their residence, owners of these passports are additionally discriminated, now by the Kosovo Government, and by certain Embassies in Kosovo.
According to Article 3 of Law of Citizenship of Kosovo, paragraph 1 and 2 state that: a citizen of Kosovo may also be a citizen of one or more other states. The acquisition and holding of another citizenship shall not result in the loss of the citizenship of Kosovo. Dual citizenship implies that citizens may use travel documents of their preference and the right of citizens of Kosovo to hold passports issued by Coordination Directorate of Republic of Serbia cannot be denied neither to Serbs, nor any other ethnic community that meets the requirements for citizenship of Republic of Serbia or any other country. Likewise, passports issued by Coordination Directorate cannot be disputed by the argument that they are issued by ”parallel institutions” of Republic of Serbia, since the Coordination Directorate is central institution of Ministry of Internal Affairs situated in Belgrade.
We would like to remind the public of the fact that in the previous years, certain embassies in Kosovo, refused to provide consular services to owners of these passports, but have withdrawn their decision shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, there are still embassies that are continuing this practice, opposing human rights principals and violating the laws that are applicable in Kosovo.
We wish to invite all responsible parties, but primarily the Government of Kosovo to cease selective implementation of laws and recognize the right of its citizens to dual citizenship.
With this statement, we would also like to remind the public and numerous international and local human rights organizations in Kosovo, that Kosovo Government did not provide equal access to travel and identification documents to all of its citizens. This practice led to a situation in which a group of people in Kosovo is unable to obtain Kosovo IDs, hence any other documents, but who, at the same time, have the legality of only documents they own contested.
Lastly, we are inviting the European Union to revise its assessment that Kosovo meets technical conditions for visa liberalization, all the while having in mind that the first technical requirement put to Kosovo Government was equal access to travel and identification documents to all citizens.
You can find more about these issues in this document.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA- Kosovske institucije blokiraju pošiljke knjiga iz centralne Srbije na Kosovo a takvi postupci ugrožavaju osnovna ljudska prava srpske i drugih nealbanskih zajednica, ocenjeno je na debati  koja je održana u okviru “Mitrovičkog društvenog kluba” u Kosovskoj Mitrovici. 

The mandate of the Commission for verification of diplomas issued by the University of Pristina temporarily settled in Kosovska Mitrovica is prolonged for another year, confirmed Ivan Tomic, the member of this Commission and the Director of the Office for Community Affairs during a debate in Mitrovica Social Club.

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Kosovski Srbi smatraju da centralne vlasti retko čuju njihov glas, a još ih ređe posluša. To je posledica složene političke situacije koja na Kosovu već punih 18 godina – čulo se na debati Mitrovačkog društvenog kluba koju je u Severnoj Mitrovici organizovala nevladina organizacija Aktiv.

On 25th of April, NGO Aktiv organized the meeting between American Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo and northern Kosovo businesses representatives. Nineteen business representatives from four northern municipalities have attended the meeting, MrVisar Hapciu Policy and Government Relations Manager and Mr Lorik Hoxha, Finance Officer took part in the meeting on behalf of American Chamber of Commerce.