Serbia's prime minister said on December 9 the country was close to demanding the deployment of their security troops to Kosovo, claiming lives of minority Serbs there were being threatened. The return of Belgrade's troops to the former Serbian province could dramatically increase tensions in the Balkans. Serbian officials claim a UN resolution that formally ended the country's bloody crackdown against majority Kosovo Albanian separatists in 1999 allows for some 1,000 Serbian troops to return. The NATO-led peacekeepers who have been working in Kosovo since the war would have to give a green light for Serbian troops to go there. To read the original story by AP, click here.
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