Ponoš asks KFOR, UNMIK to identify ANA

Serbian Army (VS) CoS Lt. Gen. Zdravko Ponos urged KFOR and UNMIK to say who masked gunmen appearing in Kosovo are. "It is a job for the KFOR and UNMIK to determine who appeared in uniforms [of the Albanian National Army – ANA]. I believe they will determine that," Lt.-Gen. Ponos said in reply to a question on whether there had been contacts between the VS and KFOR, over the apparent resurfacing of the ethnic Albanian terrorist group. Ponos asks KFOR, UNMIK to identify ANA But the chief of the Serbian army added that cooperation between the VS and KFOR is "very successful and on a daily basis." The Army maintains very successful cooperation with the local population in the Ground Safety Zone, which it controls, Ponos said, speaking at the Pasuljanske livade military training strip close to the administrative boundary wuith Kosovo, where he attended a joint tactical exercise dubbed Fall 2007 held by the 1st Ground Army Brigade. "We recently visited villages with majority ethnic Albanians and villages with majority Serb populations, within our Vranje Office for Military-Civilian Cooperation," Ponos said, adding that the Army is helping the local population. Meanwhile, members of the Serbian Army and the Ohio National Guard have organized a three-day seminar in the town of Pancevo, north of Belgrade, dedicated to exchanging experience in the area of security and anti-terrorist activities. The seminar on anti-terrorist operations and operations for protecting military police forces was organized with the objective of exchanging knowledge about the most efficient models of operations and activities. The event closed Thursday at the Pancevo Army Club, the VS said in a statement. The three-day meeting was organized by the VS General Staff Military Police Administration and the Ohio National Guard Joint Force Command, within the cooperation of the Serbian armed forces and the members of the Guard. Ponos (left) talks to his soldiers in southern Serbia (Tanjug)

Ponoš asks KFOR, UNMIK to identify ANA

But the chief of the Serbian army added that cooperation between the VS and KFOR is "very successful and on a daily basis."

The Army maintains very successful cooperation with the local population in the Ground Safety Zone, which it controls, Ponoš said, speaking at the Pasuljanske livade military training strip close to the administrative boundary wuith Kosovo, where he attended a joint tactical exercise dubbed Fall 2007 held by the 1st Ground Army Brigade.

"We recently visited villages with majority ethnic Albanians and villages with majority Serb populations, within our Vranje Office for Military-Civilian Cooperation," Ponoš said, adding that the Army is helping the local population.

Meanwhile, members of the Serbian Army and the Ohio National Guard have organized a three-day seminar in the town of Pančevo, north of Belgrade, dedicated to exchanging experience in the area of security and anti-terrorist activities.

The seminar on anti-terrorist operations and operations for protecting military police forces was organized with the objective of exchanging knowledge about the most efficient models of operations and activities.

The event closed Thursday at the Pančevo Army Club, the VS said in a statement.

The three-day meeting was organized by the VS General Staff Military Police Administration and the Ohio National Guard Joint Force Command, within the cooperation of the Serbian armed forces and the members of the Guard.