The Customs checkpoint no.1 in Jarina was closed due to the heavy infrastructural damages, announces KFOR press office.
KFOR notifies that the trucks were not allowed to enter through this checkpoint, while small private cars may cross the border at their own risk, although they will be searched by KFOR for guns.
Searches at border checkpoint no. 31 in Bernjak have been more intense, for security measures. KFOR announces that is continuing to land its corps in the entire Northern Kosovo area, to preserve calm, safety and to ensure freedom of movement.
After last night’s incidents, the situation in Northern Kosovo is reported to be calmer. The attacks by Serbian groups against Customs checkpoints no.1 and 31 that resulted with the burning of the Jarinje checkpoint were retreated after KFOR sent backup forces in the area. US and German KFOR soldiers removed roadblocks for allowing free movement in the custom checkpoints.
Both checkpoints are now controlled by KFOR soldiers. On the other hand, information suggest that based on the agreement between Kosovo Government and KFOR, the situation in the northern part of the country should be kept under control by the peacekeeping force, without having the government send special forces in the north.
Kosovo and EULEX police and customs agents will be placed at the custom checkpoints, under the protection of KFOR. Due to the tense situation all over the country, Self-Determination Movement asked the Kosovo President, Atifete Jahjaga, to introduce the state of emergency in the entire Kosovo territory.
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