PRISTINA, Oct 11 /ATA/ – Slovenia will increase the number of its soldiers in the Kosovo Force (KFOR), the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, Defence Minister Marjan Šarec affirmed ahead of a meeting of NATO defence ministers on Wednesday.
Slovenian Defence Minister Šarec said that his country will send at least 100 additional troops to join the KFOR mission current tensions in northern Kosovo.
About 4700 soldiers in total are currently stationed in Kosovo as part of the NATO-led peacekeeping KFOR mission, with 200 of them having arrived in recent days from Great Britain. Germany and Romania have also announced that they plan to send reinforcements to Kosovo.
Šarec said that the Western Balkans is very important to Slovenia and this is why the country has decided to send more troops to Kosovo.
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