Tadic said in his message that the population of northern Kosovo must continue to fight for their interests, adding that this fight should be peaceful and that they must open passage for KFOR, B92 said, adding that part of this message was a confirmation that Serbia was with Kosovo Serbs politically and financially.

Given the current situation in northern Kosovo, the Serbian president is in permanent contact with Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic, and the head of the Serbian negotiating team for dialogue with Kosovo, Borislav Stefanovic, through whom he sent a message to the Serbs who set up barricades on roads in northern Kosovo.

Political representatives of Serbs from northern Kosovo told the Belgrade-based Danas daily of Wednesday that they never heard of or saw Tadic's message concerning the KFOR's announcement that the road barricades would be removed.

In the meantime in Zubin Potok municipality a session started at which the proposals by municipal heads would be discussed and presented to councillors. One of the proposals is to allow KFOR troops temporary passage through northern Kosovo municipalities for supply purposes. They however would not have freedom of movement as Serbs do not have it either at the border crossings of Jarinje and Brnjak.

Serbs in northern Kosovo did not remove on Tuesday barricades on roads leading to the crossings Jarinje and Brnjak on the Serbian border but continued to block passage for the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR), the media in Belgrade said, while Kosovo's Albanian-language media carried KFOR commander Erhard Drews's disappointment about that.

Serbs in northern Kosovo will not let Kosovo's authorities, which they do not recognise, control the Jarinje and Brnjak crossings on the Serbian border. They set up barricades on the border crossings and the roads leading to them last month, forcing KFOR to use helicopters for the provision of supplies.