Sept 24 (Reuters) - Serbs and Kosovo Albanians hold talks on Friday on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly in New York to discuss the future of the breakaway Serbian province.

NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days in 1999 to drive out Serb forces and halt the slaughter of members of Kosovo's 90 percent ethnic Albanian majority. The province has been run ever since by the United Nations and patrolled by NATO peacekeepers.

The force, KFOR, numbers about 16,000 soldiers from 35 nations. Its main task is to keep the peace and protect the remaining 100,000 Serbs and their centuries-old churches and monasteries.

The following table, by country, lists military forces under NATO command in the breakaway Serbian province as of this summer (** denotes a non-NATO member):

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Germany 2400

Italy 2100

France 1850

United States 1500

Turkey 700

Slovenia 600

Spain 600

Greece 570

Austria 570 **

Hungary 460

Czech Republic 400

Finland 400 **

Sweden 400 **

Denmark 300

Poland 300

Portugal 300

Morocco 220 **

Ireland 200 **

Switzerland 200 **

Belgium 200

United Kingdom 190

Georgia 180 **

Ukraine 180 **

Romania 150

Slovakia 130

Bulgaria 50

Estonia 30

Lithuania 30

Armenia 30 **

Azerbaijan 30 **

Luxembourg 25

Latvia 15

Netherlands 10

Norway 5

Argentina 3 **

NOTE: Many figures are rounded.

SOURCE: KFOR

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