The Serbian interior minister's position that Serbia must not say that it would not go to war over Kosovo so it would not break the "balance of fear" has been supported by opposition Serb Progressives (SNS) and Serb Radicals (SRS).

Bogdanović, who serves as minister for Kosovo, pointed out that he also supports the idea of defending people in Kosovo by all means.

SNS Presidency member Borislav Prelević says that Dačić's positions are completely in accordance with Serbia's interests.

"This is the way a true state official acts. It should be decisively said that Serbia does not want a war but that it wants to protect its citizens in the entire state territory," he said and continued,

"This way we would send a message to all Serbs from the north and other parts of Kosovo and Metohija, but we would also show our will to defend our people, both to the international community and (Kosovo Prime Minister) Hashim Thaci. I am glad that Dačić has taken to the idea that (SNS leader) Tomislav Nikolić and I presented during voting on the government's last declaration on Kosovo," he said.

SRS deputy leader Dragan Todorović says there is not a single state that would say that it cannot defend its borders and its people. However, he points out that Serbia cannot go to war at this point and that it needs to do everything it can to maintain the framework from UN Security Council Resolution 1244 instead.

"Ivica does not have to go to war but he should not make agreements with UNMIK that are giving Kosovo statehood prerogatives such as license plates, customs and so-called administrative issues either. It is obvious that Dačić has a very large scale of positions, ranging from one extreme to another, from Kosovo partition to war," Todorović pointed out.

Reiterating what he said earlier Dacic explained today in Belgrade during a ceremony to award police officers wounded while confronting post office robbers, he also offered to resign if his comments damaged the country's national interests.

"What was I supposed to say? Thank you, Thaci, go ahead and kill all Serbs in northern Kosovo? That would be the same as if someone said, 'the guilty party are those who defended the post office from the robbers," said Dačić.

Last week, Ivica Dačić said that Hashim Thaci should be aware that by attacking Serbs and the town of Kosovska Mitrovica in northern Kosovo he would also be attacking Belgrade, and that Serbia "could not calmly stand by". Dačić also stated that rejecting the possibility of going to war amounted to sending Thaci the wrong message, because the region's security requires "a balance of fear".

Meanwhile today NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, this morning tried to dismantle a barricade at Jagnjenica, near the town of Zubin Potok, when local residents responded in force using firearms and injuring few soldiers.

"One soldier was shot in the shoulder and another in the leg," said the NATO mission spokesman, Dan Harvey.

Another KFOR spokesman Uwe Nowitzk said that two soldiers were injured "when demonstrators used small-caliber firearms against them", and that KFOR was reacting to these attacks, and acting "within its madate to secure the freedom of movement in the entire territory of Kosovo".

"The clashes are still ongoing, and the protesters are using small firearms and throwing stones at KFOR, which is responding with water cannons and rubber bullets," Harvy told the media early in the afternoon, and added that KFOR troops were instructed to use live ammunition "if they come under attack".

Latest reports speak that the total of 30 KFOR, mostly NATO, soldiers were injured and hurt in yesterday clashes with Serbian vigilantes bands which continuously block the roads in Northern Kosovo for over four months now. Many wonder what is the reason for KFOR ineffectiveness and lack of resolve to provide safe roads and security in this small part of Kosovo which hurts Serb even more than Albanians.