The northern Kosovo border crossing of Brnjak was reopened on Sunday evening, after the site was visited by KFOR commander German General Erhard Buehler and after KFOR removed some of the roadblocks, Pristina media reported, adding that residents of Kosovo had been burning products from Kosovo, as a symbolic gesture.
The border crossing with Serbia was reopened at 1830 hours for passenger vehicles and buses, but not for trucks and vehicles transporting products from Serbia.
KFOR and local Kosovo border police were controlling traffic.
The border crossing of Jarinje remained closed for all traffic and is under the control of US soldiers, members of KFOR.
The crisis broke out after Kosovo special police took over the Jarinje and Brnjak border posts, controlled by Serbs in northern Kosovo, to enforce a ban on imports from Serbia as a reciprocal move against the blockade of Kosovo trucks travelling to Serbia.
Ethnic Serbs living in northern Kosovo near the border with Serbia set up barricades and one Kosovo policeman was killed in the ensuing violence. The border posts were later taken over by KFOR peacekeepers and were declared military restricted areas.
Local Serbs set up roadblocks on roads leading from Kosovska Mitrovica to the two border crossings, thus blocking the passage of KFOR vehicles, which led to additional tensions and prompted KFOR to close down the two crossing points.
Serbian parliament on Sunday adopted a declaration on the current situation in Kosovo, condemning all forms of violence and calling for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
