Serbian Army, KFOR chiefs meet

Serbian Army, KFOR chiefs meet

However, Kather added there was evidence that terrorist training camps existed outside of Kosovo, without giving any details.

Kather expressed KFOR's readiness to provide security for all Kosovo residents irrelevant of their ethnicity and regardless of the way in which the province’s future status will be resolved.

“I have heard rumors there were terrorist training camps in Kosovo. We are monitoring the situation very carefully. There is no evidence that military, paramilitary or any other camps exist [in Kosovo]. I will make myself clear, the only institution in charge of security in Kosovo is KFOR, no one else.”

“We will not accept to be stripped of that. We heard this morning there may be some camps outside Kosovo, therefore we agreed to better cooperate in that area. I gave special instructions to my men to pay attention to that,” Kather told journalists in Niš.

Ponoš said that although the situation was generally stable, the land security zone was experiencing some relatively serious incidents.

“This includes arms smuggling and crossing of extremists and people that can be described as members of terrorist groups over the administrative boundary. For instance, those extremists that were liquidated or arrested in Sandžak recently. Serbian Army and KFOR cooperation is needed and both sides have expressed readiness to cooperate,” Ponoš said.