Crisis committees will decide the fate of roadblocks in northern Kosovo over the next several days, municipal officials Krstimir Pantic, Slavisa Ristic, Dragisa Milovic, Branko Ninic and Radenko Nedeljkovic said on Aug. 9, on a show aired by the Most TV station in Zvecan.

Leposavic municipal president Branko Ninic said that barricades near Leposavic were being lifted, but that this did not mean that the citizens could relax, and added that local crisis committees would post duty rosters to maintain the blockades.

Citizens manning the barricades in Rudare near Leposavic told BETA that they trusted their leaders and would stay at the barricades for as long as necessary.

Kosovska Mitrovica municipal chief Krstimir Pantic told reporters that the roadblocks would stay where they were.

"KFOR and the other international organizations have full freedom of movement in northern Kosovo, and they cannot accuse us of denying them this freedom," Pantic said, adding that Serbs were having trouble moving around freely.

Pantic also said that not one truck, even trucks that weighed less than the 3.5 ton freight limit, had been allowed through the Jarinje administrative checkpoint into Kosovo on the morning of Aug. 9.