In line with the Arrangements regarding Telecommunications and the Action Plan and relevant conclusions of the EU Facilitator deriving from those Arrangements, the International Telecommunication Union has today allocated the three digit dial code +383 to Kosovo. This allocation is confirmed in the bulletin of the International Telecommunication Union.

Also today, the EU handed over to mts d.o.o., the temporary authorisation for mobile and the licence for fixed telephony services to be undertaken in Kosovo* issued by the Kosovo Telecommunication Regulatory Authority.

The EU commends the parties for this important achievement.

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.