Belgrade has refused to recognize Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence. Their 1998-99 war left more than 10,000 people dead, mostly Kosovo Albanians. Serbia and its former province of Kosovo have been at odds for decades. Serbia’s armed intervention in Kosovo would mean a direct clash with some 4,000 NATO troops currently stationed there. In recent weeks, NATO has sent in reinforcements amid fears of an open clash between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. Serbia has put its troops on the border with Kosovo on the highest state of alert amid a series of recent clashes between Kosovo Serbs on one side and Kosovo police and NATO-led peacekeepers, known as KFOR, on the other. Milan Mojsilovic, said Kosovo Serbs can no longer “tolerate the terror” of the Kosovo government, and that Serbia’s military stands ready to fulfil its tasks “in accordance” with the Serbian constitution and any orders from President Aleksandar Vucic. In a brief televised address, the Serbian army chief-of-staff, Gen. BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia on Friday reiterated a threat to intervene militarily in its former province of Kosovo if NATO-led peacekeepers there fail to protect minority Serbs from what Belgrade called the terrorist threat of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian authorities.
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