As Diplomats Seek Peace, Serb Officer Is Injured in Kosovo
Top U.S. and Russian envoys toured Balkan capitals Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions in Serb-ruled Kosovo, while Serbian police said one of their officers had been injured in another attack in the troubled province.
Serbian officials said the officer sustained slight injuries in a grenade attack late Monday near Pec, about 45 miles west of Kosovo’s capital, Pristina.
Ethnic Albanians, who make up 90% of the population in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, are seeking independence.
After talks in Belgrade on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny M. Primakov, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic insisted that “Kosovo is an internal Serbian matter.”
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott visited Macedonia, which borders Serbia.
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