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Serbs have ended weeks of protests in northern Kosovo after reaching an agreement with the UN Mission to the country, UNMIK, Serbian media report.
According to Tanjug news agency, Serbs in the north of the divided town of Mitrovica stated that they reached an agreement with the international community representatives to start the reconstruction of five houses in their district on Wednesday.
“We have accepted the terms of the international community … that they will not realise the south municipality’s projects in the northern part without an approval of Serb local institutions, primarily of the municipality of [northern] Kosovska Mitrovica,” said Nebojsa Minic, a Serb representative, as quoted by the B92 web site.
He said that the protesting Serbs had met with representatives of UNMIK.
Serbs in the north of Mitrovica have for several weeks now staged protests in objection to the reconstruction of Albanian houses destroyed in the 1998-99 war in the Serb dominated north of the town. The protests have resulted in violent clashes with Kosovo Police and representatives of the EU Rule of Law Mission, EULEX.
