ARMENIA TO DOUBLE ITS PEACEKEEPERS’ CONTINGENT IN KOSOVO

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
May 22 2008
Austria

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – Armenia’s defense minister says the ex-Soviet
nation will double the number of peacekeepers deployed in Kosovo.

Seiran Oganesian said Thursday the contingent serving as part of a
U.N. mission will be increased to 68.

Around 17,000 NATO-led peacekeepers are deployed in Kosovo, which has
been administered by the U.N. and NATO since 1999, when a U.S.-led
air war put an end to attacks by Serb forces against the province’s
ethnic Albanian majority.

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February.