Thousands of Serbs protest outside Zvecan municipal building

ZVECAN - Thousands of peaceful protesters gathered outside the municipal building in Zvecan, a Serb-majority town in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, on Wednesday and rolled out a 250-metre-long Serbian flag, a Tanjug reporter on the ground said.

In a speech, former Zvecan mayor Srdjan Milosavljevic called for peaceful protests and urged the protesters not to attack Kfor troops.

He reiterated that the Serbs demanded a withdrawal of Pristina's special police forces from the four Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija and that ethnic Albanian mayors elected in April 23 polls stop coming into municipal buildings.

Kfor troops are deployed around 30 m away from the municipal building in Zvecan and have rolled out barbed wire around it.

Pristina's police remain inside municipal buildings in three municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

Kfor has boosted its presence in the north of the province and has also deployed troops on routes leading in and out of all four towns in the territory.