Washington has called for the shutdown of the downscaled United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, arguing that its work is done – but Serbia and its allies insist it must stay.
After three Serbs, one of them a four-year-old child, were murdered in a village near the eastern Kosovo town of Gjilan/Gnjilane in May 2000, the recently-established United Nations mission in Kosovo intervened in the work of the country’s judiciary for the first time.