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Kosovo and Serbia's leaders visit Brussels for talks with their European counterparts on calming tensions, with Aleksandar Vucic, president of Serbia, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti arriving for a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The talks come just days after an European Union envoy, as well as diplomats from the United States, France, Germany and Italy visited both Belgrade and Pristina, for top-level talks over the issue. IMAGES
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell urges the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia to "immediately and unconditionally" de-escalate tensions, after clashes in northern Kosovo left 30 soldiers from a NATO-led peacekeeping force injured. SOUNDBITE
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell hosts mediated talks between the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo in an effort to durably bring down tensions between both sides. IMAGES
Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti says in an interview with AFP he hopes to normalise relations with the country's arch-rival Serbia this year, following several rounds of failed talks between the two sides. "Normalisation of relations with Serbia I wish for this year, for 2024, and in the next years and decades I want to come out victorious on issues like social inequality, climate change and security threats," Kurti tells AFP. SOUNDBITE
Serbia has begun withdrawing troops from the Kosovo border after the United States warned of an unprecedented build-up, the White House says. SOUNDBITE
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