They’re from a reserve drive made accessible on the weekend to KFOR, the drive deployed by NATO in Kosovo, to cope with the scenario and the resurgence of rigidity within the area.
“The UK is deploying round 200 troopers from the first Battalion of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment to affix a 400-strong UK contingent already exercising in Kosovo, and additional reinforcements will comply with from different Allies,” mentioned Dylan White, NATO spokesman.
“The choice follows the violent assault on Kosovo Police on 24 September, and elevated tensions within the area,” he added, with out explicitly referring to Washington’s assertion on Friday warning of a Serbian army build-up on Kosovo’s border.
NATO once more known as for calm on Sunday and demanded that Belgrade and Pristina resume dialogue as quickly as doable as “the one technique to obtain lasting peace”, White mentioned.