MOSCOW, Dec 11 Head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell said that The EU will not tolerate attacks on the EULEX police mission in Kosovo and called on Kosovo Serbs to remove the barricades on the province's highways.
«The EU will not tolerate attacks on EULEX in Kosovo or violent, criminal acts in the north,» he tweeted. Borrell also urged the Kosovo Serbs to immediately remove the barricades.
The head of European diplomacy promised that EULEX would continue to coordinate activities with the Kosovo authorities and the NATO KFOR mission.
Kosovo Serbs erected barricades on the highways on Saturday north of the region due to the detention by the Kosovo Albanian authorities of the former police officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the self-proclaimed republic, Dejan Pantic. Pantić, who, along with fellow Serbian police officers from Interior Ministry units in the north of the region, resigned in November, was detained on Saturday at the Yarina checkpoint when entering from central Serbia on suspicion of «terrorism».
For the night, the protesters set up tents to keep watch on the barricades. The police of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, for their part, blocked the entrance to the province for cars and pedestrians from central Serbia to the north of the province.