“A significant increase in NATO troops and military equipment in our country will improve security and peace in Kosovo and the entire Western Balkan region,” said Albin Kurti
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti asked the NATO to boost its peacekeeping force in Kosovo after the latest flare-up of ethnic tensions with Serbia.
“A significant increase in NATO troops and military equipment in our country will improve security and peace in Kosovo and the entire Western Balkan region,” Kurti told German newspaper Die Welt.
THE KFOR, the NATO mission in Kosovo has been tasked with guaranteeing security throughout Kosovo since 1999, following a war that ended the same year. The mission includes nearly 3,800 troops from more than a dozen countries.
Serbs in northern Kosovo blocked roads with barricades in northern Kosovo on December 10 to protest the arrest of fellow ex-policemen accused of terrorism. The crisis reached the brink of armed conflict when Serbia put its armed forces on alert on Monday, December 26. Two days later after a joint intervention by the EU and the US that guaranteed the safety of the Serbian population, the Kosovo Serbs in consultation with Belgrade decided to end the road blockade and withdraw the barricades.
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