Serbs take down checkpoints
The United Nations persuaded Serbs to remove two checkpoints they had set up 12 miles inside the border of newly independent Kosovo.
For 24 hours, a blue structure topped with floodlights stood at the side of the road running north to the Kosovo-Serbia border, manned by Kosovo Serb police officers checking vehicles.
The regional U.N. police chief negotiated with the local Serb authorities to have the cabin removed with the help of Danish NATO peacekeepers, watched by a crowd of agitated Serbs.
Another blue box was placed on the eastern edge of the Serb-dominated strip of northern Kosovo and later removed.
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