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12 July 2012 | 00:36 | FOCUS News Agency
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Pristina. NATO has postponed a planned troop reduction
in Kosovo as security in the Serb-dominated north remains "volatile",
its secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday, cited by the
AFP.
"We have, for the time being, postponed any decision to further reduce the number of KFOR troops in Kosovo" he told reporters on a visit.
"As long as the security situation in the north is volatile as it is, we have to maintain the current troop level... (of) 5,000 to 6,000 soldiers," he said during a visit to the breakaway territory.
Rasmussen was speaking at the end of a visit by NATO's governing body, the North Atlantic Council, to assess the security situation in Kosovo.
Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and is recognised by around 90 countries, but not by by Serbia, which has been encouraging some 120,000 local Serbs to defy the authorities in Pristina.
"We have, for the time being, postponed any decision to further reduce the number of KFOR troops in Kosovo" he told reporters on a visit.
"As long as the security situation in the north is volatile as it is, we have to maintain the current troop level... (of) 5,000 to 6,000 soldiers," he said during a visit to the breakaway territory.
Rasmussen was speaking at the end of a visit by NATO's governing body, the North Atlantic Council, to assess the security situation in Kosovo.
Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and is recognised by around 90 countries, but not by by Serbia, which has been encouraging some 120,000 local Serbs to defy the authorities in Pristina.
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