Sources from NATO Headquarters said that the Brussels Agreement of 2013, mentioned these days by Serbia, does not include Kosovo police forces.
These sources, Serbian media report, claim that “Kosovo authorities do not have to seek KFOR’s permission to send their police forces anywhere in Kosovo.”
KFOR Commander Giovanni Fungo, was asked in a written interview of the paper, to comment the war-inducing comments of the Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, who threatened to send the army to Kosovo. Fungo said that the force that he commands, is the only army that can act in Kosovo. He added that this was also decided by the Kumanovo agreement, signed between NATO and Serbia in 1999. He also stressed that during the tensions of the last weekend, KFOR was in the state of alert.
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, said at today’s government meeting that Kosovo is determined to enforce legal and constitutional order throughout its territory. He said there has been recently intensification of provocations from Serbia but underlined that all Kosovo institutions are well-prepared and coordinated to protect stability of Kosovo.
Kosovo officially declared independence from Serbia in 2008. The Muslim-majority nation had been administered by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO bombed Serbia — a move that forced then-President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his troops from the breakaway province.
Kosovo Assembly independent MP, Ilir Deda, considers that strengthening the Kosovo Security Force into army of Kosovo should be the response to the threat of the Serbian President. “Strengthening the KSF into the Army of Kosovo should be the response of Kosovo toward Belgrade’s threat, where the President of Serbia states that “what I said about sending the army, derives from the conclusions of the Council for National Security,” Dedaj wrote on his Facebook page.
Kosovo’s Minister for Internal Affairs, Skender Hyseni reported to the Commission for Internal Affairs, Security and Supervision of the KSF, regarding the recent events, concretely Serbia’s attempt to send the train to Kosovo. He said that the Ministry was in continuous coordination with the Kosovo Police ever since the announcement about the train. “We have also requested from the international community to request from Serbia not to send the train and not to force us use force.
Kosovo police have stopped a Serbian train described as provocative from entering the Balkan country.
The words “Kosovo is Serbia” were painted down the side in multiple languages; on board was more nationalist material.
“Enough is enough”, said Kosovo’s prime minister Hashim Thaci who ordered troops to the border to stop the train in its tracks.
http://www.euronews.com/2017/01/15/war-of-words-as-kosovo-stops-provocative-serbian-train
Kosovo Police reacted harshly to the untrue statement of Milovan Drečun, MP at Serbian Parliament and member of the Serbian Progressive Party, that ROSU (Kosovo Police Special Unit) uses terrorist methods, that they are a destabilizing factor, who set explosives on the railway in northern Kosovo and recorded videos afterwards.
In response to Jasmin Mujanovic’s comment article, ‘New Partitions are the Last Thing the Balkans Need,’ Timothy Less maintains that the Balkan countries lack even the most basic elements needed to make multi-ethnicity work, so it is time to consider a new territorial settlement.
The starting point when formulating policy is to recognise the world as it is, not as one would like it to be.
Two Albanians have been recorded on a video setting a Serbian flag on fire in Geneva, Switzerland, in protest over the arrest of Ramush Haradinaj.
Haradinaj, a former KLA leader and Kosovo prime minister, was arrested in France last week on a Serbian war crimes warrant.
The Presheva Jone agency reported Friday that the pair seen in the video are Albanian immigrants "from Kosovo and Preševo."