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  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.
context: 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 >
  
  This reads as straight out of Jack Ryan season 3... :facepalm >
  
  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. >
  
  Didn’t NATO bomb them to rubble over Kosovo? Why on earth would Serbia want them back? More asskicking? >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  
  given they agree with un and nato
  
  Well NATO isn't agreeing with Serbia, so they don't have the right. >
  
  Just so you know, the dude is a straight up "genocide the Albanians" kind of guy. And I mean that literally, cause he literally said it on here not all that long ago. >
  
  I'd already said all I had to say to him, but that's good to know. >
  
  They should let them, they've obviously forgotten what happened last time and Nato troops could use a live fire exercise.