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KFOR will continue to support Kosovo, commander says
Military personnel from various nations who are part of a Nato mission take pictures by a tank at a military base during celebrations marking KFOR's (Kosovo Force) 10th anniversary in Kosovo, June 9 2009.
French soldiers who are part of a Nato peacekeeping mission stand in front of their weapons at a military base during celebrations marking KFOR's (Kosovo Force) 10th anniversary in Kosovo, June 9 2009.
A US soldier who is part of a Nato peacekeeping mission stands near a photo of England’s Queen Elizabeth and a British flag during celebrations marking KFOR's (Kosovo Force) 10th anniversary in Pristina, Kosovo, June 9 2009.
KFOR will continue with its operational mandate to support the development of a stable, democratic, multinational and peaceful Kosovo, KFOR commander Giuseppe Emilio Gay said on June 9 2009 during celebrations of KFOR’s 10th anniversary in Kosovo.
Local daily Zeri quoted Gay as saying that unluckily, there were still places in Kosovo where different communities were living side by side without co-operating with each other.
On June 9, outgoing Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that future field arrangements and personnel capacity of KFOR were to be discussed and reviewed but, the Kosovo Times said, he emphasised that that there was no decision yet to reduce the number of personnel, as was reported by several media, quoting unnamed American sources close to Nato.
The previous day, a Reuters report from Brussels said that Nato planned to scale down its 15 000-strong KFOR by 5000 by January 2009 because security and political conditions had improved.
"KFOR is looking to shift to the next phase of operations - to a deterrence presence," the US official, who requested anonymity, was quoted as telling a news briefing.
On June 3, Scheffer said that the future of the Nato deployment would be discussed at a meeting of Nato ministers in Brussels on June 11 and 12.
Local daily Zeri quoted Gay as saying that unluckily, there were still places in Kosovo where different communities were living side by side without co-operating with each other.
On June 9, outgoing Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that future field arrangements and personnel capacity of KFOR were to be discussed and reviewed but, the Kosovo Times said, he emphasised that that there was no decision yet to reduce the number of personnel, as was reported by several media, quoting unnamed American sources close to Nato.
The previous day, a Reuters report from Brussels said that Nato planned to scale down its 15 000-strong KFOR by 5000 by January 2009 because security and political conditions had improved.
"KFOR is looking to shift to the next phase of operations - to a deterrence presence," the US official, who requested anonymity, was quoted as telling a news briefing.
On June 3, Scheffer said that the future of the Nato deployment would be discussed at a meeting of Nato ministers in Brussels on June 11 and 12.
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This is good news. They should expand KSF to 7500 troops, arm them to the teeth and let them keep peace. Peaceful servs have nothing to fear; the radicals, criminals and war criminals in the North should go back to Krajina. They are vlachs thrown out out by Croats, and they don't belong in Kosovo.