Swiss and Moroccan KFOR members tried to remove the roadblock near Rudare, but after 30 minutes they returned to the base.
400 Hungarian and German KFOR soldiers have tried removing the roadblocks from the Bernjak border checkpoint to the Jegenice village, but they withdrew after the Serbian villagers started to gather.
The KFOR commander in Kosovo, Erhard Drews, told the Northern Serbs that if they will not remove the roadblocks, the soldiers will be obliged to interfere for securing free movement.
He visited the KFOR military base in Jegenice this Friday, and declared in front of Serbian and Russian journalists (the only ones allowed into the area) that the KFOR mission, according to the Resolution 1244 of the United Nations, has the obligation to secure free movement for everyone, and for this reason, the roadblocks must be removed.
On the other hand, the heads of the parallel communes in Northern Kosovo continue to support some Serbian citizens to stay in the roadblocks. The head of the Zubin Potok commune, Slavisha Ristic, repeated that their goal is to keep Bernjak and Jarinje border checkpoints without Kosovo Customs or Police agents.
Northern Kosovo was calm this Friday, while KFOR extended its military bases around the area, except in Jegenica and Caber. KFOR raised a camp at the entrance of the Zupq village, at the place where until last night there was a roadblock.
The citizens’ movement in this area will be selective. One KFOR soldier declared that only the local Serbian residents of the Zupq village will be allowed to cross these barbed wires, not the Albanians of Caber, who now are obliged to turn back and use the alternative roads, although until two months ago they had been using the same road.
The Kosovo Police acts in a similar way, which has a secondary role in this entire operation, together with the EULEX Police.
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