Azerbaijan is to recall its peacekeepers from Kosovo after the region's self-proclamation of independence, according to reports reaching here on Tuesday.
The Azerbaijani parliament has approved a bill proposed by President Ilkham Aliyev on Tuesday to pull out the country's peacekeepers, 34 servicemen within a Turkish battalion since September 1999, Itar-Tass news agency reported, citing Azeri lawmakers.
Kosovo, a southern autonomous province within Serbia before the breakup of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, unilaterally declared its independence on Feb. 17.
Source:Xinhua
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