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Serbia’s Vucic seeks NATO approval to send forces to north Kosovo

Latvian soldiers belonging to NATO's peacekeeping mission KFOR monitors a main road in Zubin Potok, Kosovo, in September 2022 [File: Sabine Siebold/Reuters]

Serbia will ask NATO peacekeepers to let it deploy Serbian military and police to volatile northern Kosovo, although it believes there is no chance of the request being approved, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned last month of the potential for “escalation and violence” after emergency talks between Kosovo and Serbia failed to resolve their long-running dispute over car licence plates used by the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo.

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