NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a joint news conference with Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium Aug. 17, 2022. (REUTERS/Johanna Geron) BRUSSELS — NATO will increase its peacekeeping force in Kosovo if there is an escalation of tensions with neighboring Serbia, the alliance's chief said on Wednesday on the eve of EU-facilitated talks between the estranged western Balkan neighbors. 'We have now a significant mission, a military presence in Kosovo close to 4,000 troops,' Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference after talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Brussels, who stood alongside him.

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