Serbian protesters applauded as military planes near Kosovo border

Border points between Kosovo and Serbia, in Jarinje and Brnjak, for the seventh day in a row continue to be blocked.

Kosovo Police Special Units continue to stay there.

Serbian citizens have been seen applauding until two military planes were seen today near the Jarinje border crossing, reports rel.

However, following reported incidents in Zubin Potok and Zvecan, the situation in the north today is reported to be calm.

European Union Foreign Policy and Security chief Josep Borrell has demanded that Kosovo and Serbia reduce tensions, immediately attracting the special units and removing road blockades”.

Borrell, through a statement, has said that any further provocation or unilateral and uncoordinated actions will be unacceptable.

Both Kosovo and Serbian leaders are responsible for any danger to the safety of local communities. I have also let the president (Serbian, Aleksandar) and the prime minister (Kosovo, Albin) know this attitude. Kurti during the talks held this week”, he said.

Borrell invited Kosovo and Serbia that open issues, including the one regarding freedom of movement, are resolved through dialogue mediated by the EU.

Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said on Saturday that decisions to be taken against the created situation will be in line with estimates made to the security situation.

The Kosovo chief of executive has said that while there is danger at the border points, there will be special Kosovo Police units.

Borrell's response comes just a day after the Zvecan Civil Recording Centre has been burned while the Civil Record Center has been attacked.

Meanwhile, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said he has asked Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, to reduce tensions in northern Kosovo.

“I have talked with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, about the need for the extension of the situation in northern Kosovo. It is vital that Pristina and Belgrade show restraint and return to dialogue. The mandate of NATO's mission, KFOR, remains to make sure that there is safe environment and freedom of movement for all”, Stoltenberg has written on Twitter.

The international community has called for a reduction of the situation and has called for dialogue between the two sides on the issue.

Germany's ambassador to Kosovo, Jörn Rohde, has called on Kosovo and Serbia to reduce tensions and find solutions through dialogue.

The situation in the north must be tense. I call on both sides to talk to each other and not to each other. The best way ahead: meet in Brussels and find solutions as soon as possible”, he wrote on Twitter.

Meanwhile, Austria's Foreign Ministry has condemned incidents that took place in northern Kosovo on 25 September and has called for parties to resolve problems through dialogue and not violence.

“We strongly want incidents last night in Kosovo. The solution to open issues lies in negotiations, not violence. All sides must refrain from divisive steps and intimidation. The dialogue mediated by the European Union is the only way for a peaceful future and for EU integration”, Austria's MPJ said through a Twitter post.