The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, said that the barricades in the north will not be allowed to remain for too long, and that on this subject they are in regular coordination with KFOR. 

This is what he said after the ceremony of starting the works of the second phase for the rehabilitation of the 10th railway line Fushë Kosovë-Mitrovica. 

"KFOR has asked for some more time from us, so we are in coordination, in regular, continuous, intensive communication with KFOR, and obviously such barricades will not be tolerated for long, but don't forget what is happening. Serbia's illegal structures transformed into criminal gangs is now the beginning of their last phase," he said. 

The six barricades erected on December 10 blocked the roads leading to the border points with Serbia, Jarinje and Bërnjak. 

This action of the local Serbs came after the Kosovo Police arrested the former Serbian official of this institution, Dejan Pantiç, on suspicion of having organized a "terrorist attack" on the offices of the Central Election Commission in the north of Kosovo. Therefore, a month's detention was set. 

Asked about his request, which he sent to KFOR, regarding the deployment of up to 1,000 Serbian military and police troops in Kosovo, he said that this is an unrealistic request, which "speaks more for them than for our country." . 

"There was never a need for Serbian soldiers in the Republic of Kosovo, there was never a need for Serbian soldiers in the 20th nor the 19th century, now their demand shows that they have remained in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ". 

"Naturally, NATO will be against it, and they also understand very well that those poor Serbian soldiers, who they claim to bring to our country, have nowhere to come to Kosovo. So it is more an expression of their helplessness than their power", he said. 

Kurti was also asked about the protest called by right-wing Serbian groups, as a sign of support for the barricades erected by local Serbs in the north of Kosovo, which was held over the weekend on the Serbian side near Jarinja - the border crossing point between Kosovo and Serbia. According to Kurti, those who are aiming to destabilize Kosovo will fail. 

"I can't say it's a civil protest when there are armed people there who want Kosovo to return to 1999, and who also carry slogans and pictures of the despotic president [Vladimir] Putin. So, those who want Serbia to be Russia and at the same time aim to destabilize Kosovo will always fail as they failed yesterday". 

"Their intention was to enter Kosovo, while the security bodies of the Republic of Kosovo and the international forces naturally took care of security and peace", he said. 

American members of the NATO mission in Kosovo, KFOR, were present on the Kosovar side of the crossing point in Jarinje on the day of the protest, on December 18.