Ethnic Serbs parked trucks and tankers at border crossings in the north in protest at the new rules.
Kosovo's government has postponed the implementation of new rules that would force people in majority ethnic-Serb areas to swap their Serbian-issued car number plates for Kosovan-issued ones.But on Sunday ethnic Serbs in the north barricaded roads and armed men fired shots in protest.Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008, after years of strained relations between its Serb and mainly Albanian inhabitants.
Some 50,000 people living in majority Serb areas of the north use licence plates issued by Serbian authorities and refuse to recognise Kosovo institutions.
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