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UNMIK holds Serbian students at boundary22 February 2008 | 15:35 | Source: B92, Tanjug JARINJE, PRIŠTINA -- Several hundred students from Belgrade, Niš and Kragujevac are held at the Jarinje administrative line crossing.

Several hundred students from Belgrade, Niš and Kragujevac are held at the Jarinje administrative line crossing. The outpost was set on fire by protesting Kosovo Serbs this week, which resulted in the withdrawal of the Kosovo police, KPS. UNMIK and KFOR now man the crossing.

The dean of the University of Belgrade, Branko Kovačević, told Tanjug news agency that the international forces deployed in the province are refusing to allow the buses to enter Kosovo, but that the students are determined to stay at Jarinje until they are let through.

A group of some 60 students, however, managed to reach Kosovska Mitrovica where they were headed, when they crossed the administrative line on foot. A bus, sent from the Serb-dominated north Kosovo town, then met them 12 kilometers from Jarinje.

UNMIK and KFOR are since this morning allowing entry into the province from central Serbia only to the residents and those deemed as not likely to "threaten public order".

"We have opted for this move after last night's events in Belgrade and buses carrying demonstrators are strictly prohibited entry, while those carrying citizens will be allowed," a spokesman for KPS in Priština told the agency.

The students are headed to Kosovska Mitrovica to support their colleagues there, who hold daily peaceful protests at 12:44 CET, to underline that the latest U.S. and EU moves over Kosovo violate international law, and more specifically, UN Resolution 1244.