Ethnic Serbs blockade Nato troops in north Kosovo

Ethnic Serbs from Kosovo's north said yesterday they had blockaded Nato troops who took control of border posts with Serbia this week to halt violence provoked by a customs dispute with Belgrade.
Nato said it was negotiating with the ethnic Serbs to get the roadblocks removed as it tries to ease tensions over the row between Kosovo, which is 90 percent ethnic Albanian, and Serbia which refuses to recognise independence of its former province.
Trouble flared on Monday when Kosovo sent ethnic Albanian special police units to the border posts, which had been staffed mostly by ethnic Serbs, to enforce a ban on imports from Serbia.