KPS Serbs given deadline to return to work

The Kosovo government has decided to give all suspended Serb policemen until June 30, 2009, to return to their jobs. The province’s interior minister, Zenun Pajaziti, made the announcement, presenting the results of a working group made up of local officials and EULEX representatives tasked with resolving the problem of suspended Serb officers within the Kosovo Police Service. KPS Serbs given deadline to return to work Pajaziti took part at a session of a joint committee for coordinating activities in the field of the rule of law, co-chaired by Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuqi and EULEX Chief Yves de Kermabon. The committee held its regular session yesterday to report on the activities of EULEX and the Kosovo institutions in the field of the rule of law. Kuqi said that the decision to set a deadline should not viewed as a means of punishing the Serb officers, but rather a reasonable step towards rebuilding a fully multi-ethnic police service that would work in the interests of all communities. Pajazati said that “from today, we need to step up efforts to encourage all police officers who have left, to return to the Kosovo police.” The EULEX chief supported the government’s decision, stressing the need to resolve this problem in a “friendly manner.” According to the Kosovo government, de Kermabon gave the committee a rundown of EULEX’s activities since the last session, including the declaration of the mission’s full operative capability and his visits to Belgrade and Tirana. During these visits, he discussed regional cooperation, among other things, in the area of organized crime.

KPS Serbs given deadline to return to work

Pajaziti took part at a session of a joint committee for coordinating activities in the field of the rule of law, co-chaired by Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuqi and EULEX Chief Yves de Kermabon.

The committee held its regular session yesterday to report on the activities of EULEX and the Kosovo institutions in the field of the rule of law.

Kuqi said that the decision to set a deadline should not viewed as a means of punishing the Serb officers, but rather a reasonable step towards rebuilding a fully multi-ethnic police service that would work in the interests of all communities.

Pajazati said that “from today, we need to step up efforts to encourage all police officers who have left, to return to the Kosovo police.”

The EULEX chief supported the government’s decision, stressing the need to resolve this problem in a “friendly manner.”

According to the Kosovo government, de Kermabon gave the committee a rundown of EULEX’s activities since the last session, including the declaration of the mission’s full operative capability and his visits to Belgrade and Tirana.

During these visits, he discussed regional cooperation, among other things, in the area of organized crime.