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A NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldier from France stands guard in front of barricades at the closed Serbia-Kosovo border crossing of Brnjak October 19, 2011.
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JAGNJENICA, Kosovo (Reuters) - NATO troops in Kosovo fired teargas to disperse hundreds of Serbs blocking a contested border crossing with Serbia on Thursday, and used armored vehicles in a bid to remove makeshift barriers.
German and Austrian troops in full riot gear moved to dismantle the roadblock near the village of Jagnjenica, just outside the town of Zubin Potok, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital Pristina, a Reuters eyewitness said.
The Kosovo Serbs, who do not recognize Kosovo's 2008 independence declaration from Serbia, put up barricades on two disputed border points with Serbia in July, when Kosovo's ethnic Albanian-dominated authorities tried to take them over.
A column of about a dozen trucks and armored personnel carriers of NATO's KFOR force were deployed along the road to the disputed Brnjak border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia.
After using loudspeakers to warn protesters to disperse, KFOR infantry moved to the Brnjak border crossing and ousted dozens of Serbs from a roadblock without violence.
Peacekeepers also deployed about 80 armored vehicles and bulldozers near a separate roadblock on the road leading to the Brnjak border post.
"We are continuing our operation and we hope that the people will stay calm as until now," said a NATO spokesperson in Pristina.
In Belgrade, Serb President Boris Tadic urged Kosovo Serbs to remain peaceful and NATO to refrain from the use of force.
"Local (Serb) leaders should work only in the best interest of people ... and not under the influence of some (Serbian) political parties," Tadic said in a statement. "Some political leaders are using this issue for their political agendas ahead of future elections," he said.
"Under no means should the people (in Kosovo's north) resort to violence as that would lead to an abyss."
Serbia faces parliamentary elections in 2012 and Kosovo, cherished by Serbs as their historic heartland will play high on the agenda.
Tadic's remarks signaled a rift between Belgrade and Kosovo Serb hardliners and came after ethnic Serb mayors and community leaders from northern Kosovo on Wednesday defied NATO calls to remove roadblocks. They had called for Belgrade to send in Serbian troops and police.
"Their position was solidified by nationalists from Belgrade who want to undermine Serbia's efforts to normalize situation in the region and join the European Union," said an official in Belgrade who asked not to be named.
There have been previous clashes over the blocked borders between protesters and troops from KFOR, who have patrolled Kosovo since Serbian forces withdrew in 1999 and a U.N. administration took over. A European Union mission (EULEX) replaced it in 2008.
Serbia still effectively runs Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, but is under pressure to help resolve the impasse after the European Commission conditioned future EU accession talks on Belgrade's cooperation with Kosovo's government.
Serbia lost control over Kosovo in 1999 after a 78-day NATO bombing campaign halted a crackdown on ethnic Albanian civilians in a two-year counter-insurgency war.
More than 80 countries, including the United States and most of the EU, have recognized Kosovo as a sovereign country.
(Writing by Aleksandar Vasovic; Additional reporting by Fatos Bytyci in Pristina; Editing by Rosalind Russell)
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