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Serbia formally requests NATO presence of its security forces in Kosovo

MADRID, 16 Dic.

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Serbia formally requests NATO presence of its security forces in Kosovo

MADRID, 16 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Serbian Defense Minister Milos Vucevic has formally announced that he has asked NATO for permission to deploy its security forces in Kosovo, an unprecedented request since the end of the war in 1999, and compliance with the notice declared this past weekend by the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic, after the rise in tension in the area.

"I have informed the President of the Republic of Serbia as Commander-in-Chief and the Prime Minister of the Government (...) shortly before 11:00 a.m. of the request for the entry of up to 1,000 members of the Army and the Police in Kosovo", Vucevic has made it known on Instagram.

The petition, protected according to Serbia in United Nations resolution 1244, has been officially handed over to representatives of the NATO mission for Kosovo, KFOR, at the Merdare administrative crossing.

Vucic raised this option last weekend to protect, according to his words, the Kosovo Serb majority in northern Kosovo, who have set up barricades against the arrest of former police officer Dejan Pantic by the Kosovo security forces, and in the midst of a institutional vacuum in the four Kosovar Serb municipalities of the country after the boycott declared by politicians sympathetic to Belgrade.

In the last few hours, the Serbian channel B92 has reported the arrest of a second former Kosovar Serb police officer, Sladjan Trajkovic, in the north of the municipality of Mitrovica.

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