Kosovo

Kosovo prime minister Albin Kurti and Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić met separately with senior European leaders on the margins of the European Council in Brussels last week for discussions on a new US-EU plan to normalise their relations. Although the talks failed, the US-EU proposal, which would require

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo are in Brussels to meet with top European Union officials -- though it remains to be determined whether they will meet with each other -- for talks aimed at normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina, a month after a deadly attack in the north of Kosovo by armed ethnic Serbs.

Recent developments in Kosovo highlight ongoing security challenges and political tensions in the region, highlighting the need for effective dialogue and cooperation, the UN envoy for Kosovo said on Monday.

The first contingent of two hundred British soldiers arrived in Kosovo on Friday (6 October 2023) to reinforce NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) peacekeeping mission. 

Germany will send around 150 soldiers to Kosovo in April 2024, a spokesperson for the Defense Ministry said in Berlin on October 6, confirming a report by news magazine Der Spiegel.

KFOR mission dismisses Serbian and Albanian calls for it to start policing the restive Serb-majority north of Kosovo, saying these duties are 'the exclusive prerogative of the Kosovo Police'.

[…] Increased tensions have continued to impact the already fragile trust among communities and between institutions and communities, making renewed trust-building efforts and inter-community engagements a resolute Mission priority.

Britain is to send 200 more troops to keep the peace in Kosovo after an armed attack by Serb militants on September 24 raised the spectre of a wider conflict.

The White House has urged Serbia to pull back what it said is a large military deployment from its border with Kosovo amid rising tensions after deadly clashes this week in a Kosovar village.

Washington has condemned an attack at a Serbian Orthodox monastery complex in the mostly Serb north of Kosovo as the country observed a day of mourning for the police officer who died over the weekend in a clash with a “heavily armed” group that also left at least three of the suspected assailants dead.