19 minutes agoUS: Serbia has begun to withdraw forces from border with Kosovo
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)White House spokesman for National Security John Kirby said Tuesday that Serbia has begun withdrawing Serbian forces along the border with Kosovo. Since we publicly declared that we had seen Serbian forces along the border, we have seen them beginning to withdraw those forces from there. This is something positive, it will help [...]
Since we publicly declared that we had seen Serbian forces along the border, we have seen them beginning to withdraw those forces from there. It's a positive thing, it'll help to relax the situation. It will not eliminate tensions, but it will ease the” situation, Kirby told reporters in Washington, reports Voice of America.
Washington's response to the withdrawal of Serbian military forces along the border with Kosovo comes days after the United States voiced concern about a large military gathering from Serbia along the border with Kosovo, which they think included advanced artillery, tanks and mechanised military units. The United States called this gathering the unprecedented “”.
Kirby said the United States does not plan to increase the number of American peacekeeping troops in KFOR, while NATO has warned it will increase the number of troops under its mission in Kosovo following the attack of the Serb armed group in the northern part of the country on 24 September.
