FACTBOX: NATO's Kosovo peace force

Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:27pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - NATO troops came under fire during Serb riots in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo on Monday, in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian majority declared independence last month.

Some 16,000 NATO-led peacekeepers remain in Kosovo from the 46,000 deployed in June 1999, after NATO's 78-day bombing pushed Serb forces out and halted the killing of ethnic Albanians.

The following table, by country, lists KFOR troops as of February 4 (** denotes a non-NATO member):

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Italy 2567

Germany 2374

France 2269

United States 1456

Turkey 752

Spain 637

Greece 605

Hungary 564

Czech Republic 435

Poland 320

Denmark 305

Portugal 296  Continued...

 

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