KFOR: Increased security measures on Macedonian border
The NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo have sent reinforcements to their units deployed at a border crossing with Macedonia.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, May 14, 2010
A KFOR spokesman told local media in Pristina that the rapid reaction units joined Kosovo police, KPS, and EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, police, in securing this area, and that they would remain there "for as long as needed".
All this comes after the latest incidents in the region, when four ethnic Albanians - two from Kosovo and two Macedonian citizes - were shot and killed by Macedonian police as they were trying to smuggle weapons.
The Belgrade media point that this incident has caused concern among the western diplomatic centers and in NATO central, worrying about the renewal of ethnic conflicts and new armed actions of the Albanian secessionists, who brought Macedonia to the verge of civil war in 2001.
