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Issuing of biometric passports including fingerprints begins
Belgrade,
1 December 2009
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic said that more than 5,000 biometric passports with fingerprints have been issued since yesterday, when the issuing of the new generation of passports began.
Apart from data on the identity of the owner, the new passports also contain their fingerprint and a new inspection system for unlocking the passport's chip.
This will enable the passport holders to pass through automatic passages, without contact with border police, at the borders of the states which have highly-developed systems of passport control.
Dacic said that by issuing biometric passports with fingerprints, Serbia joined the group of ten countries in the world and the two or three European states that have mastered this technology.
He explained that in June the passport with fingerprint became standard in the rules of the EU. Before Serbia has always been behind Europe and this is the first time that it keeps pace with it.
The First Deputy Prime Minister said that abolishment of visas for Serbia is not a gift, but the result of all the reforms that have been carried out in the last year and a half.
All citizens who already have biometric passports without a fingerprint will not have to change them since they will be valid until the expiry date and will be equally as valid as the new generation of passports.
Commenting on the beginning of debate on the legality of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo, Dacic said that any decision that would legalise it would bring chaos to the international legal order.
This will enable the passport holders to pass through automatic passages, without contact with border police, at the borders of the states which have highly-developed systems of passport control.
Dacic said that by issuing biometric passports with fingerprints, Serbia joined the group of ten countries in the world and the two or three European states that have mastered this technology.
He explained that in June the passport with fingerprint became standard in the rules of the EU. Before Serbia has always been behind Europe and this is the first time that it keeps pace with it.
The First Deputy Prime Minister said that abolishment of visas for Serbia is not a gift, but the result of all the reforms that have been carried out in the last year and a half.
All citizens who already have biometric passports without a fingerprint will not have to change them since they will be valid until the expiry date and will be equally as valid as the new generation of passports.
Commenting on the beginning of debate on the legality of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo, Dacic said that any decision that would legalise it would bring chaos to the international legal order.
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