Kosovo border crossing blockade: Only passengers with Serbian documents can pass

President of the Association of Citizens of the Kosovo-Mitrovac District, Rasa Rojevic, said that there are currently 30 people each in Jarinje and Brnjak, and 50 each in Kula and Merdar. He said there were no incidents. In a statement to the Beta agency, he said that the crossings will be blocked until six o'clock in the morning when others would arrive to replace them.

The N1 journalist from Jarinje reported that there was a brief discussion between the people who unfurled the banner and the truck drivers since the organizers announced that the trucks would be stopped.

Members of the Homeland Association of Serbs from Kosovo left Pionirski Park to block the road to Kosovo. They announced blockades until their demands were met. These are the Brnjak, Merdare, Kula and Jarinje crossings.

The N1 team was a few kilometers from the Jarinje crossing as early as 6 pm when the beginning of the blockade was announced. There were several people with banners at the Rudnica blockade, and vehicles with Serbian license plates, as well as those with Kosovo license plates, were passing through, but they were driven by Serbs. Kosovo trucks will be stopped, the organizers said.

"We reciprocate everything that Kurti did. If there is no traffic from Serbia, other goods cannot pass either. There will be no passing of trucks. Trucks with documents from the so-called Kosovo cannot pass through," Rojevic said after the blockade on Jarinje began.

Two kilometres from Merdar, where the mock blockade is located, there was also the N1 team. At 6 pm, slightly more people were gathered there than in Jarinje.

Blockade participants set up a vehicle and one lane was blocked, while vehicles with Serbian license plates were allowed to pass, the N1 reporter said.

As one of the organizers, Dragisa Bilic, said, only people and vehicles with Serbian documents can pass through, as well as Serbs with Kosovo license plates.

"We are asking the UN for KFOR and UNMIK to enter the north of Kosovo and the withdrawal of ROSU from the north," said Bilic.

It was announced that there would be eight-hour shifts at the blockade.

The Kosovo Ministry appealed earlier to avoid all crossings to Serbia.