Osman's meeting with Stoltenberg a few days after the chief NATO launched 700 additional troops for Kosovo

Osman and Stoltenberg met during the inaugural ceremony on the occasion of the re-election of Recep Tayip Erdogan as president of Turkey.

Kosovo's head of state wrote on Facebook that in meetings with other Kosovo leaders and friends”, they have specifically spoken of the importance of co-operation on security issues, the Express reported.

“during the ceremony, with other Kosovo leaders and friends, we discussed the importance of co-operation at this defining time for common security”, Osmani wrote.

Stoltenberg has reacted several times in the past few days because of the tense situation in the country's north, after the new Albanian mayors entered the municipal facilities there with police assistance.

That few days ago, it has announced that the north-Atlantic alliance will increase the number of troops in Kosovo under its mission, KFOR.

“We have decided to engage 700 additional troops from the Western Balkans Operational Reserve Force, and to upgrade the readiness of an additional reserve force battalion so that they can engage, if there will be a”, he said at a news conference, asking Kosovo and Serbia to take concrete steps to reduce tensions, refrain from irresponsible behavior and engage in dialogue”.

Recently, Stoltenberg said that “NATO will remain alert”.

“We will be there to ensure a safe environment, as well as to calm down and reduce tensions”, Stoltenberg told reporters in the margin of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Oslo.

Stoltenberg said on Thursday that violence against the peacekeepers of the NATO mission, KFOR, in Kosovo was “strictly unacceptable”. On Monday, about 30 KFOR members were injured in Zvecan, after some violent, masked protesters attacked them on their own, including explosive devices such as shock-bomba and Molotov.