Envoys from EU, U.S., meet Kosovo Serbs as differences resurface

Kosovska Mitrovica, KOSOVO (Reuters) - Envoys from the European Union and the United States met officials in Kosovo's ethnically divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica on Thursday as long-standing differences between Belgrade and Pristina flared again, triggered by a dispute over car number plates.

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. But Belgrade accuses Pristina of trampling on the rights of minority Serbs, who account for 5% of Kosovo's 1.8 million population, which is 90% Albanian.