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Traffic queues as Jarinje crossing is closed

(1 Aug 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Jarinje - 1 August 2022 1. Cars waiting at the Jarinje border crossing to enter Kosovo 2. Police vehicle and officer at crossing 3. Close of stop sign 4. Cars at border waiting to cross 5. Empty and blocked off lane at border crossing 6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Jovan Popovic, from Leposavic: "The whole situation is like a game between cat and mouse. While the bosses are sitting in their chairs, ordinary people here are suffering and waiting under the hot weather and without any correct information, waiting to cross freely. The borders have long been abolished, but here they are being established. This is ridiculous, absurd and it is not commendable at all." 7. Various of cars waiting at border to cross 8. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Serdar Islami, from south Mitrovica: "I have been travelling since Saturday. Today is Monday. I have been waiting at Merdare (crossing) for 10-15 hours, here around 5-6 hours and they sent us back. I wanted to go via Montenegro, but I needed some documents. Now I am back here to see what's going to happen." 9. Vehicles at border waiting to cross 10. Empty and blocked off lane at border crossing STORYLINE: There were long lines of vehicles at the Jarinje border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo on Monday, which remained closed to traffic. Kosovo's authorities have moved to ease mounting ethnic tensions between the two by delaying a controversial order on vehicle license plates and identity cards that triggered riots by minority Serbs who put up roadblocks, prompting authorities in Kosovo to close the Jarinje and Brnjak border crossings. The Kosovo government has accused neighbouring Serbia of instigating the riots in order to destabilise the country that declared independence in 2008 after a NATO intervention that stopped Serbia's bloody crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatists in 1999. Officials in Kosovo had earlier decided that as of August 1 they would resume the practice of requiring vehicles that enter from Serbia to replace Serbia license plates with Kosovo ones. For the past 11 years, the reverse was required by Serbia for vehicles driving from Kosovo that transit through Serbia. Kosovo is also planning to block its ethnic Serb minority from using only the Serbian identity cards when crossing the border. After discussions with European and US partners, the "reciprocity" license plate and identity card plan was being postponed for a month, until September 1, the Kosovo government said. =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...