Merdarja and Bërnjaku closed, Jarinja blocked for citizens with Kosovo documents
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The National Center for Border Management has announced that the two border points between Kosovo and Serbia, Merdarja and Bërnjaku, continue to be closed.
However, the border point in Jarinje continues to be blocked for citizens with documents of the Republic of Kosovo.
First, the border point in Bërnjak was closed, where the Minister of Internal Affairs Xelal Sveçla announced that groups of masked extremists in the presence of the Serbian police, within the territory of Serbia, have stopped cars and legitimized travelers.
Until it showed that a Kosovar family that was traveling to Germany was forcibly turned back.
Meanwhile, he later announced that the border point in Merdarë has also been closed.
"After the same actions of Serbian masked extremists inside the territory of Serbia, who are stopping selectively and with a fascist approach to citizens who want to transit through Serbia and all this before the eyes of the Serbian authorities, the border point in Merdara is also closed . In defense of life and for the safety of all our citizens, even this point like the one in Bërnjak will be closed until such selective and fascist actions are stopped and the situation fully normalized," the minister wrote last night. Sveçla.
The head of the so-called association of citizens of Mitrovica District for Kosovo, Rasha Rojevic, has announced that the blockade will be organized by local associations of citizens from Kosovo.
"The blockade will begin at 18:00 on September 6 and will last until the Kosovo police forces are withdrawn from the north of Kosovo. We also demand that KFOR take control of the north of Kosovo", he said.
According to him, the blockades will last until the citizens' demands are met.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of Kosovo (MPJD) called on citizens of Kosovo and Kosovar emigrants to avoid border crossings between Kosovo and Serbia during their transit journeys.
