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Serbians may ask their Ruzzian brothers, they have some experience  .......
From behind the paywall:
NATO declines Serbia's request to deploy its troops in Kosovo
By Fatos Bytyci
SHTERPCE, Kosovo Jan 8 (Reuters) - NATO's mission in Kosovo, KFOR, has declined a Serbian government request to send up to 1,000 police and army personnel to Kosovo after clashes between Serbs and the Kosovo authorities, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday.
Serbia's former province of Kosovo declared independence in 2008 following the 1998-1999 war during which NATO bombed rump-Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, to protect Albanian-majority Kosovo.
"They (KFOR) replied they consider that there is no need for the return of the Serbian army to Kosovo ... citing the United Nations resolution approving their mandate in Kosovo," Serbia's Vucic said in an interview with the private Pink television.
Last month, for the first time since the end of the war, Serbia requested to deploy troops in Kosovo in response to clashes between Kosovo authorities and Serbs in the northern region where they constitute a majority.
The U. N. Security Council resolution says Serbia may be allowed, if approved by KFOR, to station its personnel at border crossings, Orthodox Christian religious sites and areas with Serb majorities.
Vucic criticised KFOR for informing Serbia of its decision on the eve of the Christian Orthodox Christmas, after Kosovo police arrested an off-duty soldier suspected of shooting and wounding two young Serbs near the southern town of Shterpce.
Police said both victims, aged 11 and 21, were taken to hospital and their injuries were not life threatening.
Kosovo authorities condemned the incident, which has inflamed tensions.
On Sunday, a few thousands Serbs protested peacefully in Shterpce against what they called "violence against Serbs".
Goran Rakic, the head of the Serb List, which is the main Serb party in Kosovo, accused Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti of trying to drive out Serbs.
"His goal is to create such conditions so that Serbs leave their homes," Rakic told the crowd. "My message is that we must not surrender."
Serbian media reported that another young man was allegedly attacked and beaten up by a group of Albanians early on Saturday, while media in Pristina reported that a Kosovo bus going to Germany through Serbia was attacked and its windscreen broken with rocks late that same day.
International organisations condemned the attacks, expected to deepen mistrust between majority ethnic Albanians and around 100,000 ethnic Serbs that live in Kosovo. Half of them live in the north and most refuse to recognise Kosovo's independence.
Additional reporting and writing by Daria Sito-Sucic in Sarajevo; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Barbara Lewis >

Awww come on! When has anything bad ever happened from Serbian involvement in foreign affairs? >

Trouble in the Balkans, nooooooo, nothing ever bad happens between the people of the balkans. >

And the people of the Balkans, those are the people the people of the Balkans hate most of all! >

Yeah because Serb police / troops would be completely neutral, transparent and maintain the peace. >

Yeah like Albanians right? Who shot Serbian kids yesterday really amazing stuff good job on supporting them. You people are evil as fk. >

Remind me again why Kosovo isn't under Serbian control. It can't have anything to do with an attempted ethnic cleansing right? >

Imagine simping for/defending SERBIANS on conflict in the balkans lmao. they were literally play soccer/football with the heads of Bosnians they decapitated in the 90s. War criminals.
Edit: I saw this with my OWN eyes, not lying/joking. >

Idk if all the sane Serbs just don't fly their flag online, but I've never seen a Serb admit national fault for anything. >

It's an extremely fascist country. Fascists never admit fault, it's in their brainwashed mind to be nationalistic at all costs. >

NATO: Not making that mistake again... >

We've come full circle from when Clinton was accused of pulling a Wag The Dog in Kosovo to distract from the Lewinsky Scandal to Putin accused of pulling a Wag The Dog in Kosovo to distract from...everything. >

Election time in Serbia already? >

Serbia already started one world war.  What the fuck is wrong with these people? >

Cool like the south erecting statues of traitors to the usa >

You're getting down voted, I agree with your sentiment man. Reconstruction didn't go far enough. >

Deconstruction didn't go far enough. >

Maybe NATO should deploy troops in Serbia? /s >

I'm no more in favor of an invasion than anyone else is... 
But where Serbia deploys its troops is no one's business but Serbia, and the invaded, and everyone who gets called in when the mutual defense pact dominos start falling, and... Oh. >

This reads as straight out of Jack Ryan season 3... :facepalm >

Didn’t NATO bomb them to rubble over Kosovo? Why on earth would Serbia want them back? More asskicking? >

Is Serbia a member of NATO? >

They can join any time they are willing to admit Yugoslavia is dead, they're the ones that killed it, and they don't have the national right to the ethnic cleansing of its corpse. >

So never, then. >

Look, 2 Serbian boys were shot by an Albanian POLICE OFFICER for no reason (it was admitted by Kosovo authorities), another one was beaten up, Serbs are being terrorised down there and KFOR isn't doing their jobs properly, that's why Vucic asked for Serbian troops there. When several Serbs were arrested few weeks ago, one of them had health problems and needed medication, nobody knew why he was arrested, where he was and was he provided with necessary medication, KFOR said that they provided Kosovo police with the medication, but said that they didn't know whether it was provided to him or not, also his lawyer wasn't allowed to see him, doesn't sound democratic to me. Also Vucic requested troops only on the north of Kosovo where there's Serbian majority and he is allowed to request this by resolution 1244.
Edit: I'm interested in what's the reason I'm being downvoted, can you comment on what I said was wrong? >

An off-duty soldier shot a boy and a man. He was then arrested by local police.
That's not at all like a police officer shooting two boys and getting away with it.
Edit: I am only addressing the above comment's edit, asking why they're being downvoted. >

The problem is that this isn't the first time this happens and KFOR is there to stop this, and as they didn't we requested return of our troops to the north of Kosovo where there is a Serbian majority. >

I don't disagree with Serbs' reasoning. I should have clarified I was responding to your edit. >

quick reminder that under resolution 1244 serbia has the right to place its army on kosovo, given they agree with un and nato. everyone knew it would be denied, we are just excercising our rights, funny how mad that makes some of you. >

That’s not true and hasn’t been true since Kosovo declared independence.
That agreement has been invalid for decades >

Kosovos self declared independance is the same as the independance of Donetsk and Luhansk. and by the way that resolution is still valid >


Kosovos self declared independance is the same as the independance of Donetsk and Luhansk.

I mean the International Court of Justice and the UN general assembly disagree with you. 
And the facts. 
But don’t let that stop you from simping for genocide. 

and by the way that resolution is still valid

According to Serbia, Venezuela, and Russia. 
And Serbia’s opinion on that is despite them pledging to accept the ICJ ruling on Kosovo. >

"im american and we recognize kosovo therefore its a state, and your resolutions are invalid because we said so"
No, you braindead american worm, the resolution is still valid, thats what international law is. Kosovo doesnt even have recognition by half of UN states, and it needs 2/3 majority to be accepted. Russia and China have also vetoed. Thats how international law works, the United States isnt the only country that makes decisions for every country in the world. >


Kosovo doesnt even have recognition by half of UN states

Last time I checked 101 is more than half of 193.

Russia and China have also vetoed.

Vetoed what? General Assembly Resolution 10980? Because no they didn’t.
Because no one can veto a general assembly resolution.

Thats how international law works, the United States isnt the only country that makes decisions for every country in the world.

Correct it isn’t. 
But the majority of the world recognizes Kosovo and they continue to maintain territorial integrity while excluding others who lay claim to it. 
Those are the marks of a sovereign nation. 
That’s how international law works. 
But keep going, I want to see how much effort you’re willing to expend defending genocide. >


Kosovo has less than 90, we are working on countries receeding recognition of it, currently only nato countries and their vassal states recognize kosovo. 

Shit even the president of Serbia doesn’t claim those numbers. He says 94. 
And even his claim of nine countries withdrawing recognition on January 5th doesn’t have any proof. 
None of those countries have issued any such declaration. 
And ah yes such classic NATO vassals like Libya, Peru, Egypt, and Thailand. 
Good to know NATO can force them to do such a thing when it can’t even force actual members Spain and Greece to do it.
Edit: oh and I love how included all the nations who have refused to make any statement on the matter or those who stated they are remaining neutral on it as one supporting Serbia. That’s some impressive dishonesty >

Greece,Spain,Romania,Slovakia all have their separatist regions and would be giving them validation for their separation if they recognized Kosovo. Parts of countries cannot just unilaterally seceede just because of population change. It is against the law. You claimed 100+ contries in your last comment, proving you dont know what the fuck you're talking about. 94 is still not even half, nor is it 2/3,so what ever the number is, it still isnt fucking recognized. Even if i said Kosovo is independant from serbia, it is still not an independant state. It cannot function without EU/UN/NATO/USA help. That is not a country, that is occupied territory. It was placed under interim UN administration and them unilaterally proclaimed independance. That is against the law. You can keep shilling for your country all you want, the truth is that it is not a country. >

They should let them, they've obviously forgotten what happened last time and Nato troops could use a live fire exercise. >

You may have misread this. 
This was Serbia requesting to send 1,000 of their "police" troops into Kosovo to "keep the peace".  NATO told them to go pound sand because there was no need or desire for them there.
In short the NATO commanders can see what is going on.  Some Serbian factions are causing trouble along NATO's flank for the benefit of Moscow.  And these police forces would end up being an escalation of that trouble making into all out conflict. >

I feel like I read it correctly, obviously NATO isn't going to say that they can because they'd have nothing to gain from it. They support Kosovo and a possible future intervention would be harder to justify if they told Serbia they were allowed to send their police in. 
Don't give them permission and then if they decide to do it anyway you have a more clear cut justification for Kosovo 2 electric boogaloo.
But I'm just a random person with no influence over foreign policy, so dick waving sounds good to me. >

You seem to think the situation is similar to what it was in the 90's after the collapse of the USSR.
Though there have been ethnic tensions in the region stretching back for a very long time, the politics at work couldn't be more different. >

That region was not part of the USSR and Serbia’s politics are exactly what they were in the 90s. Only difference is that they are afraid to use direct force/war, not wanting to provoke NATO, to create their dream of greater Serbia. So instead they have been focusing on politically destabilizing their neighbors instead. >

I may not be an expert either, but having literally lived through the break up of Yugoslavia I do feel like I have a better understanding of it than some random dude on the internet who clearly does not have an understanding of the region. 
The USSRs break up had an effect on the international community’s response to the break up of Yugoslavia, but not as to why the break up happened to begin with. That was entirely internal. There was talk of war years before the fighting started and the Serbs started making the preparations even earlier. 
Serbia’s prime minister is literally an ultra nationalist who entered politics in the 90s. Most of what he and the rest of the political establishment say in regards to the EU is just lip service. Anybody who is from that region understands that.