Deadlock of northern streets continues

This is confirmed for Radio Free Europe, Deputy Police Director for the Northern Region Besim Hoti.

The situation has not changed. The situation is quiet, nothing happened. Barricades are still present there, but to see today during the day what will happen after the decision was made”, Hoti told REL.

Local Serbs on July 31st placed trucks and other heavy vehicles on the road to challenge two Kosovo Government decisions dealing with Serb license plates and documents.

After that, the government pledged it would postpone implementing the decisions for a month, if Serbs remove the established barricades, the first access documents were issued at midnight already.

The June 29th Kosovo executive decision envisions issuing the entry and exit document to all persons who possess Serbian documents.

Same practices Serbia has applied to Kosovo citizens for years.

Meanwhile, the second ruling envisions that all owners of Kosovo city license plates issued by Serbia can re-register their cars on RKS (Kosovo Republic) license plates.

Kosovo city acronym plates -- by official Pristina -- are considered illegal, but are estimated that in the country's north, inhabited by Serb majority -- 10,000 cars with such plates circulate.

Due to tensions in the north, Kosovo police have closed two border crossings -- Jarinje and Brnjak -- and have instructed citizens to use other crossings.

On July 31st, police reported that there have been shootings at several locations and some have been the police's direction, but there have been no injuries.