Kosovo PM Albin Kurti has doubled down on the decision to install ethnic Albanian mayors in majority Serb areas. Separately, France's Macron urged new elections.
Ednews informs via DW that the US, France and Germany increased diplomatic pressure on Serbia and Kosovo to resolve the dispute involving the Serb minority in Kosovo's north on Thursday.
At a summit in Moldova, French President Emmanuel Macron said he and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Kosovo and Serbian leaders to organize new elections in northern Kosovo as soon as possible.
Macron said that Berlin and Paris asked for election rules in the new polls to be clarified.
Hours before, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on both sides to defuse tensions.
The comments come several days after Serbs in the northern Kosovo town of Zvecan clashed with soldiers of the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR outside of the town hall.
The following day, KFOR announced that it would send 700 additional peacekeepers to the territory.
Protesters were demonstrating against the assumption of office by ethnic Albanian mayors after local elections that were boycotted by most Serbs, who form the overwhelming majority of the population in four municipalities in Kosovo's north.
