Vucevic: KFOR Must Make Up for Serb Police Officers in Northern Kosovo and Metohija

Milos Vucevic, the vice president of the Serbian Progressive Party (BETAPHOTO/DRAGAN GOJIC)

Serbian Defense Minister Milos Vucevic said on Nov. 8 that the international peacekeeping forces in Kosovo, KFOR, must make up for the Serb police officers who had left the service in northern Kosovo and Metohija because, as he put it, it would be "disastrous to let Premier Albin Kurti send over police from the south of Kosovo."

Vucevic told Pink TV that he did not expect KFOR, as an army, to become the police, but that it was important that it "essentially does the work regarding the security of all citizens in Kosovo and Metohija."

"(KFOR must) make sure that ROSU or other Kosovo police units do not enter the north of Kosovo now, that Albanian judges and prosecutors do not come and manage cases against Serbs and that the persecution of Serbs continues in a legal form," he said.

In his words, the Kosovo security forces are turning into armed forces by someone's decision and someone is arming them, which they have no right to under earlier agreements.

"Someone is creating an army in Kosovo, bypassing KFOR, contrary to (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1244, contrary to the Kumanovo Military Technical Agreement. That is something we as a state are carefully watching," stressed Vucevic. 

He underscored that the European Union must say whether Kosovo Premier Albin Kurti "has annulled the Brussels Agreement" through Pristina's latest decisions.