K. Mitrovica mayor reveals "compromise suggestion"

Mayors of Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo have offered KFOR a compromise solution for the current problem regarding the barricades, said reports.

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Tuesday, 18.10.2011.

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Mayors of Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo have offered KFOR a compromise solution for the current problem regarding the barricades, said reports. Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Krstimir Pantic said the convoys of the NATO troops were offered to be able to "periodically pass through the municipalities in the north, but this does not mean they will have full freedom of movement". K. Mitrovica mayor reveals "compromise suggestion" KFOR previously announced it would remove the barricades that prevent them from supplying their troops at the Jarinje and Brnjak administrative line checkpoints. Awaiting further developments, Serbs have gathered in Zupce, Leposavic, Rudare and the main bridge on the Ibar River, separating the southern, ethnic Albanian, and northern, mostly Serb parts of Kosovska Mitrovica. There are about 2,000 people this morning gathered in that town. Pantic said that the citizens would defend their homes "with their bodies". "They are ready to solve all misunderstandings only through compromise," he added. Pantic said he received a call from the KFOR command on Tuesday morning, and that those troops would try to have two convoys pass through Kosovska Mitrovica today, carrying "food and equipment and mechanization that should enable for better conditions for soldiers at Jarinje and Brnjak". The mayor said he did not know how the people would react, but that he was convinced they would be peaceful - without either resorting to violence, or allowing themselves to become the victims of violence. In the meantime, Vice President of the Serb Republic (RS) Emil Vlajki has announced he would tour the barricades in the north today. Zvecan Mayor Dobrosav Dobric is at the Rudare barricade where he told reporters that the people expect KFOR "to take (ethnic) Albanian customs and border police back to where they brought them from, while the people will then remove the barricades in a peaceful atmosphere". Reports earlier on Tuesday suggested that KFOR had rejected a request by Serbs to postpone the removal of barricades for another day until the mayors and all councilors of the four municipalities in the north had met. But later in the day, it was announced that KFOR had extended its deadline for another day. The barricade in Kosovska Mitrovica (file)

K. Mitrovica mayor reveals "compromise suggestion"

KFOR previously announced it would remove the barricades that prevent them from supplying their troops at the Jarinje and Brnjak administrative line checkpoints.

Awaiting further developments, Serbs have gathered in Zupče, Leposavić, Rudare and the main bridge on the Ibar River, separating the southern, ethnic Albanian, and northern, mostly Serb parts of Kosovska Mitrovica. There are about 2,000 people this morning gathered in that town.

Pantić said that the citizens would defend their homes "with their bodies".

"They are ready to solve all misunderstandings only through compromise," he added.

Pantić said he received a call from the KFOR command on Tuesday morning, and that those troops would try to have two convoys pass through Kosovska Mitrovica today, carrying "food and equipment and mechanization that should enable for better conditions for soldiers at Jarinje and Brnjak".

The mayor said he did not know how the people would react, but that he was convinced they would be peaceful - without either resorting to violence, or allowing themselves to become the victims of violence.

In the meantime, Vice President of the Serb Republic (RS) Emil Vlajki has announced he would tour the barricades in the north today.

Zvečan Mayor Dobrosav Dobrić is at the Rudare barricade where he told reporters that the people expect KFOR "to take (ethnic) Albanian customs and border police back to where they brought them from, while the people will then remove the barricades in a peaceful atmosphere".

Reports earlier on Tuesday suggested that KFOR had rejected a request by Serbs to postpone the removal of barricades for another day until the mayors and all councilors of the four municipalities in the north had met. But later in the day, it was announced that KFOR had extended its deadline for another day.

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