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Change of command ceremony in Pristina

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NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo stand at attention during a KFOR change of command ceremony in Pristina, Sept. 7, 2012. German General Volker Halbauer took command of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo. NATO deployed peacekeepers in Kosovo after a 1999 air campaign that ousted Serbian forces waging a crackdown on the pro-independence ethnic Albanian majority.