ST. PAUL -- Gov. Tim Pawlenty plans an early-summer trip to Kosovo to visit the 800 Minnesota National Guard troops stationed there.
It will be his third such trip overseas. He visited U.S. troops in Bosnia in November and in Iraq in January. A specific date for this trip has not been announced.
His announcement Sunday comes amid reports of renewed violence in the war-torn province of the former Yugoslavia. Some 28 people have been killed in recent days in riots sparked by the deaths of two Albanian teenagers who drowned while fleeing Serbs.
NATO troops have been on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo since 1999. The Minnesota Guard troops arrived there early last month.
