French defense minister in Kosovo

France's new defense minister met with his country's soldiers deployed in Kosovo on Monday.

Izvor: AP

Monday, 28.05.2007.

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French defense minister in Kosovo

Upon his arrival in Kosovo, Morin visited some 2,800 French peacekeepers stationed in the northern part of Kosovo, where they serve as part of a NATO-led peacekeeping force, said Lt. Col. Reaner Grossman, a spokesman for KFOR.

Morin was scheduled to confer later with NATO's commander in Kosovo, German Lt. Gen. Roland Kather. Kather will greet the French minister with a military honor at KFOR headquarters in Priština, and will brief him on the developments in the province, Grossman said.

For several months, Kosovo has been a major issue for the United States and key European countries, which are in the process of trying to mend differences with Russia over the province's future.

The AP reports that there are fears that ethnic Albanians are growing impatient, and Western officials have warned that delays in the process could spark renewed violence. The Serb minority, concentrated in the province's north, has threatened to split the areas it dominates from the rest of Kosovo if the province gains independence from Serbia.

The French troops, which are part of NATO's 16,500-strong force, patrol the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, one of the most tense areas in Kosovo.

The town's river, which splits the two communities into a Serb-dominated north and ethnic Albanian south, has been a fault line in violence that has shaken the small territory years after the 1998-99 war.

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