NATO-led Troops On The Move In Northern Kosovo

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published December 13, 2018 | 08:18 PM

Kosovo's NATO-led peacekeepers moved troops through the Serb-dominated north on Thursday, an AFP correspondent reported, amid high tensions with Serbia on the eve of a vote to create a Kosovo army.

Mitrovica, Kosovo, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Dec, 2018 ) :Kosovo's NATO-led peacekeepers moved troops through the Serb-dominated north on Thursday, an AFP correspondent reported, amid high tensions with Serbia on the eve of a vote to create a Kosovo army.

A spokesman for the international KFOR forces, which guarantees the security of the former Serbian province, confirmed the deployment and told AFP it was part of "normal exercises all around Kosovo".

"We have a couple of convoys moving around.

One of them is going today to the north," said KFOR spokesman Vincenzo Grasso, adding that there was no reason for alarm.

About 50 KFOR vehicles moved through the city of Mitrovica and headed north in the direction of Leposavic, a mostly Serb municipality, an AFP correspondent said.

The top local official in Leposavic municipality confirmed troops were in the village of Dren on Thursday morning.

"They are heavily armed and equipped to prevent demonstrations," Zoran Todic added.