NATO Steps in as Serbs Torch Kosovo Border Post
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NATO peacekeepers in newly independent Kosovo intervened on Tuesday as Serb mobs opposed to its secession attacked border posts and police fled.
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BELGRADE, Nov 29 (IPS) - Three Balkans nations, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina  and Montenegro, have been invited to join the Partnership for  Peace (PfP) programme by leaders gathered at the North Atlantic  Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in Riga, Latvia.
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In the sweltering heat of  the Balkan summer, the stray dogs cannot even muster a bark as  a NATO foot patrol makes its way through the hilltop village of  Skorobiste in southwest Kosovo.
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European Union leaders decided Friday to deploy a vast police mission to Kosovo as the Serbian province edges toward independence, a move that could fuel tensions with Russia.
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U.N. police backed by NATO  peacekeepers were reopening two Kosovan border crossings on  Wednesday, a day after Serbs burnt them down in the first  challenge to the authority of the newly independent republic.
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BELGRADE - In a major move to boost its military might, the European Union took over the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Thursday.
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NATO leaders Wednesday invited Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina to join a program considered a first step toward eventual membership, but urged Serbia and Bosnia to fully cooperate with the U.N. war ...Comment
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More than 1,000 extra NATO troops have poured into Kosovo to secure Saturday's election but the Serb minority is insisting on a boycott amid simmering ethnic tensions.
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Ethnic Serbs react angrily across the Balkans to Kosovo's declaration of independence.
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"Serious negotiations are needed to protect the Serbs in Kosovo as well as our holy sites. Serious negotiations are needed to continue the international presence in Kosovo"  Serbia's minister for Kosovo suggested Saturday that the government will seek to keep control over Serb-populated areas after the predominantly ethnic Albanian province declares independence.Slobodan Samardzic said Friday that Belgrade had information indicating that Kosovo will unilaterally declare independence on Feb. 17.Western officials said they expected the move a day later, and Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaci, did not confirm or deny Samardzic's statement but said Kosovo's split from Serbia was 'a done deal.' Read more
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NATO on Friday urged  flexibility from all sides in overcoming the diplomatic  deadlock on the fate of Serbia&#39;s breakaway Kosovo province, and  warned against any &quot;unforeseen developments.&quot;
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NATO launched a dawn raid on a  house of a Bosnian Serb suspected of helping top war crimes  fugitive Radovan Karadzic, the alliance's spokesman in Bosnia  said on Saturday.
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As NATO transferred command of the nine-year-old peace-keeping mission in Bosnia to the European Union on Thursday, it handed a tough challenge for the nascent
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NATO stepped up patrols in  Kosovo on Thursday to head off possible violence as a decision  nears on the fate of Serbia's breakaway province.
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NATO on Tuesday offered Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro the first step on the road to membership of the alliance, and declared that other Balkan countries could expect firm invitations to join in 2008.
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WIESBADEN, Germany  - European Union and NATO defense chiefs on Thursday mapped out plans for steering the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo through a tense period while ensuring a future exit strategy for their armies.
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A European Union force has taken over the peacekeeping mission from the NATO in Bosnia to maintain security and stability in the country.