NATO, EU secure polling stations in vote re-run central to Kosovo accord


  • World
  • Sunday, 17 Nov 2013

People wave Serbian flags during a rally in the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica, November 15, 2013. REUTERS/Bojan Slavkovic

MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) - NATO soldiers and EU police secured polling stations in the flashpoint Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Sunday for a re-run election central to a Western-sponsored plan to end the country's ethnic partition.

Masked men lobbing tear gas halted voting in Mitrovica two weeks ago, during a municipal election held for the first time in a northern, mainly Serb pocket of majority-Albanian Kosovo.

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