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Violence against KFOR in the north of Kosovo, Stoltenberg reacts from the NATO summit

Violence against KFOR in the north of Kosovo, Stoltenberg reacts from the NATO

NATO is ready to send even more troops to Kosovo, to calm the violence in the north of this country, inhabited by a majority of Serbs, said on Thursday the Secretary General of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg.

He added that the first 700 reinforcement troops are already on their way to Kosovo.

"NATO will remain vigilant. We will be there to ensure a safe environment, as well as to calm and reduce tensions," Stoltenberg told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Oslo.

Stoltenberg said that the violence against the peacekeepers of the NATO mission, KFOR, in Kosovo was "totally unacceptable".

Clashes between Serbian protesters and KFOR soldiers in Zveçan – a municipality in northern Kosovo – left 30 soldiers injured, as well as dozens of protesters, on 29 May.