European Union and U.S. envoys met officials in Kosovo's ethnically divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica on Thursday as longstanding differences between Belgrade and Pristina flared again, triggered by a dispute over car number plates.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. But Belgrade accuses Pristina of trampling on the rights of minority Serbs, who account for 5% of Kosovo's 1.8 million population, which is 90% Albanian.
EU-sponsored talks in Brussels earlier this month failed to overcome differences that centre on a plan by Pristina to require local Serbs to switch their car number plates from Serbian to Kosovo ones.
