Kosovo Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, said that he does not intend to remove elected ethnic Albanian mayors from their positions in the Serb-populated northern part of Kosovo. Days of unrest have prompted NATO to send additional troops to stave off violence
LEPOSAVIC, Kosovo, May 31 - NATO peacekeepers guarded town halls in ethnically divided northern Kosovo for a third day on Wednesday, asprompted the alliance to send additional troops to the area and NATO and the West slammed Kosovo for not having done enough to stave off violence.
Regional unrest has intensified following April elections that the ethnic Serbs boycotted, narrowing the turnout to 3.5% and leaving victory in four Serb-majority Kosovan mayoralties to ethnic Albanian candidates. Kosovo media reported on Wednesday that protesters outside a town hall in Zvecan, who were separated from Polish NATO troops by a razor-wire barrier, had broken windows on a police car and two cars belonging to Kosovan Albanian media outlets.
"While they may have been legally elected, we do not consider their election legitimate," Dragan, an ethnic Serb who lives in Leposavic, told Reuters on Wednesday.with Serbia, saying that forcefully installing the mayors in ethnic-Serb areas undermined efforts to improve troubled bilateral relations.U.S. Kosovo Force soldiers, under NATO, stand guard near a municipal office in Leposavic, Kosovo May 31, 2023.
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