Serbian troops on the border with Kosovo were put on high alert Friday following clashes inside Kosovo.
“We will preserve peace — but I am telling you that Serbia won’t sit idle the moment Serbs in northern Kosovo are attacked,” he told the crowd., and has stepped up combat readiness several times during moments of tension with Kosovo.Zdravko Ponos, a former Serbian army chief turned opposition politician, criticized Vucic’s response as “inappropriate.”
Kosovo police acknowledged their increased presence “to assist mayors of the northern communes of Zvecan, Leposavic and Zubin Potok to exert their right of work.” In Zvecan, the news website Kosovo-online.com showed clashes with police in front of the municipal building, while in Leposavic the main square was blocked with cars and trucks.in northern Kosovo after Serb representatives left their posts last year. They had resigned in protest because Kosovo authorities’ refused to allow an ethnic Serbian association to coordinate work on education, health care, land planning and economic development at the local level.
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