New NATO liasion to Serbia

New NATO liasion to Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 5 (UPI) -- The 26-member NATO bloc needs to choose a new liaison for Serbia as Norway's term as emissary comes to an end.
Beta news agency reported earlier this week that as many as 11 NATO members have expressed an interest in being NATO's liaison to Serbia.
Norway is currently NATO's contact-point country with Serbia, but the position ends Dec. 31. While Serbia's Defense Ministry has not officially announced which NATO members are interested in replacing Norway, according to the Beta agency's sources, the interested candidates include Denmark, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic.
Norway 's term as liaison was originally for two years, but was then prolonged for another six months until the end of December. Britain previously served as NATO's liaison with Serbia.
Relations between Serbia and NATO have long been rocky -- in 1994, NATO shot down four Bosnian-Serb aircraft after they violated a United Nations "no fly" zone over central Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1995, NATO air-strikes helped end the Bosnian conflict. In March 1999, NATO began an 11-week bombing campaign to end Serbian military action in Kosovo.