Serbia alerts forces after Kosovar police deploy
Special police moved into area around the side of Gazivode lake
29 September, 19:01
(AP-ANSA) - PRISTINA, SEPTEMBER 29 - A Serbian government official says security forces have been put on alert after Kosovo's special police were deployed in the country's Serb-dominated north. Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said Serbia reacted after Kosovo's special police moved into an area around the Kosovo side of Gazivode Lake.
Kosovar President Hashim Thaci visited the area on Saturday.
There was no immediate reaction from Kosovo. Serbia does not recognize Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence but the two sides have been told they must normalize relations as a precondition to European Union membership. A NATO-led peacekeeping force has been deployed in Kosovo since the military alliance intervened in 1999 to stop Serbia's onslaught against ethnic Albanian separatists.
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