Clinic and Health Centre in Mitrovica North received yesterday humanitarian aid related to medical material, Director of the Centre, Milan Ivanovic told Radio kontakt plus.

“After the problems to get medicaments, due to hampering acts by Pristina, thus disabling an adequate medical treatment of our patients, yesterday on 12 December, necessary medical material from our state of Serbia arrived and it was received as humanitarian aid,” Ivanovic said, underlining that “taxes are not paid for the humanitarian deliveries.”

Former Kosovo Constitutional Court judge, Enver Hasani told Belgrade-based daily Danas that the decision to impose 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia was intended to bring greater engagement by the international community in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

Hasani added this political decision was also intended for domestic consumption. “From the political side, this was an evidently populist process. The decision is intended to translate into votes at the elections next year”.

One of the topics at today's EU leaders' summit in Brussels will be the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Tanjug learned from the European Council.

Heads of state and government of EU member-states will, at the request of Cyprus, on the first day of the summit in Brussels consider the blockade of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, sources from the European Council said.

According to the report, it has been assessed in the Council that the blockade was due to the introduction of Pristina's tax on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

The Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Eurochambres) is opposed to protectionist measures such are the tariffs imposed by Pristina on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, said President of Eurochambres to his Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) counterpart, reported regional broadcaster N1.

The PKS press release said that Eurochambres President Christoph Leitl told PKS President Marko Cadez that his organization has called European institutions to help find a solution to the problem.

Marko Jaksic, representative of the national movement of the Serbs "Fatherland", said in an interview with Belgrdae based daily Danas that the state pharmacies in Mitrovica North are not full, but he says that they were not full even before the sanctions. The shops and private pharmacies are full and adds that they would be even fuller if Belgrade allowed alternative ways of supplying goods, but official Belgrade does not allow it, so it can continue spreading the story of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Prva TV correspondent from Mitrovica North reported that Serbs in Kosovo with relief heard about yesterday’s decision Pristina would not introduce additional measures, adding it does not mean they would stop protests against 100 percent taxes imposed on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The protest in Mitrovica North would take place today as well, Prva TV reported.

The response of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) to Pristina's 100% customs fees could be a request to exclude Kosovo from the CEFTA agreement, reports portal B92.

Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia-Herzegovina Mirko Sarovic said, commenting on Pristina's measures, aimed also against goods from central Serbia, that there was no need to resort to countermeasures - but that BiH's response could be a request for the exclusion of Kosovo from agreements that guarantee free trade.

Commenting on possible new measures of Pristina, Serbian Minister of Trade and Telecommunications, Rasim Ljajic said the trade is already stopped, and it is about further political radicalization by Pristina, Serbian media report.

“It is difficult to speculate about Pristina’s new measures,” Ljajic said, adding that “Serbia has some information about it,” but he would not comment before seeing what these measures could be.

Tensions have shown how much it is necessary to lift the measures introduced by Pristina in order to create an environment for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue continuation, Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy, Dragan Djukanovic told RTS.

Speaking for the RTS morning news edition, Djukanovic added new measures that Pristina is announcing would completely deter normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations and it seems it is yet another mechanism Ramush Haradinaj and his government are using to slow down or bring the entire process into question.

Students of Pristina University temporarily settled in Mitrovica North would continue their protests regarding the introduction of 100 percent taxes on the goods from central Serbia, Radio Kosovska Mitrovica reported.

As announced, students would gather today near the police station and EULEX office.

Meanwhile, Radio kontakt plus reported that on Sunday, December 9, taxi drivers from Mitrovica North also staged a protest “against Pristina’s discriminatory measures”.