Serbia to ask NATO to deploy Serb military, police in Kosovo - Reuters

BELGRADE, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Serbia volition inquire NATO peacekeepers to fto it deploy Serbian subject and constabulary successful Kosovo, though it believes determination is nary accidental of the petition being approved, President Aleksandar Vucic said connected Saturday.

Vucic told a quality league successful Belgrade that helium would marque the petition successful a missive to the commandant of the NATO unit KFOR.

Vucic's remarks came aft a spate of incidents betwixt Kosovo authorities and section Serbs who represent a bulk successful bluish areas of Albanian-majority Kosovo.

"We volition petition from the KFOR commandant to guarantee the deployment of service and constabulary unit of the Republic of Serbia to the territory of Kosovo and Metohija," Vucic told a quality league successful Belgrade. He said helium had "no illusions" that the petition would beryllium accepted.

The authorities successful Belgrade would formally follow the papers connected Monday oregon Tuesday, helium said.

It would beryllium the archetypal clip Belgrade requested to deploy troops successful Kosovo, nether provisions of a U.N. Security Council solution which ended a 1998-1999 war, successful which NATO interceded against Serbia to support Albanian-majority Kosovo.

The solution says Serbia tin deploy up to 1,000 military, constabulary and customs officials to Orthodox Christian spiritual sites, areas with Serb majorities and borderline crossings, if specified a deployment is approved by KFOR's commander.

At the clip it was agreed, Kosovo was internationally recognised arsenic portion of Serbia. With the West's backing, Kosovo declared independency successful 2008, a declaration not recognised by Serbia.

Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic Editing by Peter Graff

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