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Britain to send more troops to Kosovo (1st Lead)
Apr 29, 2008, 13:42 GMT
London - Britain is to deploy 600 extra soldiers to Kosovo from next month to assist with NATO peacekeeping activities, Defence Secretary Des Browne said Tuesday.
The troops would be despatched at the end of May and stay in the province for a month to help maintain public order.
Their deployment came in response to a request from NATO for assistance in dealing with violence between Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and its minority Serbian population.
Britain is responsible for providing NATO's standby reserve force for the Balkans for the first six months of this year.
The defence spokesman of the opposition Conservatives, Liam Fox, while agreeing that Britain 'must fulfil its commitments,' warned Tuesday of an 'increased overstretch' of British forces with large contingents deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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