U.N. Moves to Boost Security in Kosovo

The head of the United Nations-led administration in Kosovo unveiled measures intended to bring security to the volatile city of Kosovska Mitrovica, the scene of an eruption of violence last week. Bernard Kouchner said he would bring 300 more U.N. police into the ethnically divided city, adding that troops from a multinational peacekeeping force also would be reinforced. As part of the reinforcements, British troops have taken over from French forces guarding the main bridge between the Serbian-dominated north and ethnic Albanian-dominated south of the city. Two Serbs and 10 ethnic Albanians died in last week’s violence. Kosovo is a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia’s dominant republic.