Serbs in northern Kosovo stop EULEX vehicles

A convoy of EULEX vehicles with cisterns and customs booths was stopped at about 11:00 CET in the village of Banov Do near Zvecan, in northern Kosovo. “The vehicles were stopped on a section of the road between Zvecan and the village of Zubin Potok,” Kosovska Mitrovica Mayot Krstimir Pantic said Friday. Serbs in northern Kosovo stop EULEX vehicles He told journalists that the convoy of EULEX vehicles had set off from the village of Jagnjenica, in the municipality of Zubin Potok, planning to get to the Jarinje administrative crossing. “The locals gathered spontaneously in the village of Banov Do and prevented them from passing because it was contrary to the agreement that Zubin Potok and Zvecan Mayors Dragisa Milovic and Slavisa Ristic, respectively, reached with EULEX representatives, according to which only one EULEX vehicle, which has only EULEX representatives as passengers, rather than customs officers or the equipment to be used by them at the administrative crossings, is allowed free movement” explained Pantic. According to him, KFOR then blocked the section of the road, but after the citizens gathered on the site KFOR troops pulled out and the traffic was normalized. (Tanjug, file) Tanjug

Serbs in northern Kosovo stop EULEX vehicles

He told journalists that the convoy of EULEX vehicles had set off from the village of Jagnjenica, in the municipality of Zubin Potok, planning to get to the Jarinje administrative crossing.

“The locals gathered spontaneously in the village of Banov Do and prevented them from passing because it was contrary to the agreement that Zubin Potok and Zvečan Mayors Dragiša Milović and Slaviša Ristić, respectively, reached with EULEX representatives, according to which only one EULEX vehicle, which has only EULEX representatives as passengers, rather than customs officers or the equipment to be used by them at the administrative crossings, is allowed free movement” explained Pantić.

According to him, KFOR then blocked the section of the road, but after the citizens gathered on the site KFOR troops pulled out and the traffic was normalized.