All border crossings between Kosovo and Serbia opened, all that happened today

All border crossings between Kosovo and Serbia have opened for full and unhindered circulation after all blockades on the Serbian border were removed on Saturday afternoon.

Kosovo Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla announced that two border points Kosovo authorities had closed Friday evening in Brnjak and Merdar have opened.

The crossing at Jarinje opened on Saturday morning.

Their reopening comes after Serbian associations removed all blockades that they had imposed Friday afternoon to protest the closure of Serb parallel institutions in northern Kosovo, which is populated by Serb majority.

After receiving reports that blockades created by masked extremists that were located yesterday on Serbia's territory, and seeing that there is no obstacle to circulation from and towards border points of the Republic of Kosovo, we made the decision to open the Merdara and Brnjak” border checkpoints, Svechla said on Facebook.

Dragisa Miriq, chairman of the Korean Association in Serbia, announced on Saturday afternoon that the blockade in Merdar has been removed.

Miric said his association will wait until 1 October for the fulfillment of their demands by Kosovo authorities and warned new border blockades, if Serb demands are not met.

The blockade organisers want Kosovo to withdraw police from majority Serb municipalities in the north, allow the use of Serbian dinar currency, which was banned earlier this year, as well as allow the work of parallel Serb municipalities.

Kurti Government decisions have been sharply criticised as mutual and uncoordinated “by the international community, which has said they risk increasing tensions.

But, the Kosovo government says it is trying to establish order and law, especially in Serb-run northern Kosovo, eliminating Serb parallel institutions.