BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said on Friday it had “authorized additional forces to deal with the current situation” in Kosovo, without immediately specifying their number or from which countries they came from.
Clashes between the police and armed Serbs holed up in a monastery transformed Banjska, a peaceful village in northern Kosovo with a Serb majority, into a war zone earlier this week, causing the deaths of three attackers and a police officer. police.
Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, accuses Belgrade of arming and supporting Serbian fighters.
Serbia, which does not recognize the independence of its former province, accuses Kosovo of fueling violence by mistreating its inhabitants of Serbian origin.
(Reporting Andrew Gray, Charlotte Van Campenhout; French version Diana Mandiá, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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