(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 01 – The NATO-led international force Kfor “closely monitors” the situation on the border between Kosovo and Serbia and is “ready to intervene if stability is endangered” according to its mandate, sanctioned from the resolutions of the UN Security Council. It can be read in a statement issued this evening.
The statement states that the commander of the KFOR, the Hungarian general Ferenc Kajari, is in constant contact with all the institutions concerned, and also with the Serbian military leaders. The KFOR, about 3,500 strong, has been present in Kosovo since the end of the war in 1999, on the basis of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244.
The crisis was opened by the announcement made by the government of Pristina, of the entry into force of a series of measures that would oblige the Serbian population, a majority in the north of Kosovo and which remains linked to the parallel structures that Serbia maintains in Kosovo, to obtain identity documents issued by the Kodovar authorities and, from September, to replace the Serbian car plates with the Kosovar one.
Due to the protests and roadblocks put in place by the Serbs, Pristina decided in the evening to close the border crossings of Jarinje and Brnjak. Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti accused Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic of the new inter-ethnic tensions, who for his part issued a warning to Pristina urging it not to continue in the policy he considered hostile to the Serbs, while asking the Serbian population to remain calm and not to give in to ‘provocations’. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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