Kosovar police units in armoured vehicles moved in to secure and search a village in north Kosovo on Monday, a day after four people were killed in a shootout there between police and ethnic Serb gunmen in the restive region.
, battling police and barricading themselves into a Serbian Orthodox monastery. Police retook the monastery late on Sunday, after three attackers and one police officer were killed.
Ethnic Albanians make up a majority of Kosovo's 1.8 million people. But some 50,000 Serbs in the north of the former Serbian province do not accept Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence and see Belgrade as their capital, more than two decades after a Kosovo Albanian guerrilla uprising against Serbian rule.Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has blamed Serbia for financing and sending armed men to Kosovo.
Josep Borrell, foreign policy chief of the European Union, which has sponsored dialogue since 2013 seeking to normalise ties between Serbia and Kosovo, spoke to both Kurti and Vucic on Sunday.
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