Opposition party leaders in Kosovo denied Friday the claims that the roadblock near Jarinje was rebuilt Thursday without approval from Leposavic municipal officials, but Mayor Branko Ninic says otherwise.

Ninic confirmed to Tanjug that the block, constructed out of logs on the road from Rudnice to the Jarinje administrative crossing, was not put up with the consent of the municipality.

"The barricades were not placed in consultation with the rapid reaction headquarters which coordinates all municipal activity," he said.

Ninic added the roadblocks were the work of individual political parties.

The chairmen of the Serbian Progressive Party and New Serbia district committees in Kosovo, as well as the chairmen of the Serbian Progressive Party, Democratic Party of Serbia, the Socialist Movement and the Serbian Radical Party municipal committees in Leposavic, said in a release Friday that the new roadblocks were put up in a coordinated effort with the municipality, and that any information to the contrary is "media manipulation and an attempt to destroy the unity of all people in northern Kosovo, in the interest of Serbia's virtual candidacy for EU membership."

"The Serb population in Kosovo will not consent at any cost to becoming Kosovars overnight, and to this end, on the behalf of all Kosovo citizens loyal to the Republic of Serbia, we are prepared to bear the consequences of this act," reads the release.