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Polish soldiers, portion of the peacekeeping ngo successful Kosovo KFOR, walk done barricades arsenic they patrol adjacent the bluish Kosovo borderline crossing of Jarinje, on the Kosovo-Serbia border, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. A NATO-led peacekeeping ngo successful Kosovo took implicit the country adjacent 2 Kosovo-Serbia borderline crossings pursuing the woody reached by the 2 countries to deescalate tensions triggered by a quality implicit conveyance licence plates. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

JARINJE – Soldiers with a NATO-led peacekeeping ngo are keeping ticker astatine the Kosovo-Serbia borderline aft the 2 countries reached a woody to deescalate tensions triggered by a quality implicit conveyance licence plates.

Kosovo Force troops from the United States, Italy and Poland were seen patrolling Saturday arsenic taste Serbs removed the trucks they had utilized to artifact the roadworthy to 2 borderline crossings portion protesting the Kosovo government's determination not to let vehicles with Serbian licence plates into the country.

Kosovar peculiar constabulary forces besides pulled backmost from the border, wherever they were deployed 2 weeks agone to region the licence plates from entering cars and to regenerate them with impermanent registration successful Kosovo.

The authorities successful Pristina said they were replicating what Serbia had done to Kosovar motorists for a decade. Kosovo was a Serbian state earlier it declared independency successful 2008, and Serbian troops and taste Albanian separatists fought a bloody warfare successful Kosovo during the 1990s.

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European Union mediator Miroslav Lajcak persuaded representatives from the neighboring Balkan nations this week to fto the Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops instrumentality implicit the areas for the adjacent 14 days.

“As from this play and for the adjacent 2 weeks, KFOR volition support a impermanent robust and agile beingness successful the area,” a connection from the NATO ngo said.

As portion of the agreement, some countries volition enactment stickers implicit the other's sanction and emblem connected licence plates of vehicles entering their territory.

KFOR, made up of astir 4,000 troops from 28 countries, is led by NATO with enactment from the United Nations, the European Union and others. Its purpose is to stave disconnected lingering taste tensions betwixt Kosovo's taste Albanian bulk and number taste Serbs.

The United States and astir of the West admit Kosovo's independence, but, Serbia, supported by its allies Russia and China, does not.

EU-facilitated negotiations to normalize relations betwixt Pristina and Belgrade started successful 2011 and person produced much than 30 agreements, which are either observed poorly oregon not astatine all.

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Llazar Semini reported from Tirana, Albania.

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