KFOR soldiers "treat Serbian officials like criminals"

NATO-led KFOR held two Serbian state officials negotiating an end to the current crisis in Kosovo for half an hour at the Jarinje administrative checkpoint.

Izvor: Beta

Saturday, 30.07.2011.

11:21

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NATO-led KFOR held two Serbian state officials negotiating an end to the current crisis in Kosovo for half an hour at the Jarinje administrative checkpoint. Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic and Belgrade team chief in the Brussels-held Kosovo dialogue Borislav Stefanovic were stopped by American soldiers, had their car searched and held at the post for half an hour last night. KFOR soldiers "treat Serbian officials like criminals" They were headed to Belgrade after almost a week in the province in order to attend an urgent parliament session on Kosovo. The soldiers, the two officials said, treated them like criminals. When Stefanovic at one point went toward the checkpoint on foot, American soldiers cocked their rifles and shouted at him to return. Stefanovic said he believed such treatment "did not exist even in Iraq", and noted that "we are not the enemies of KFOR, and the state of Serbia does not stand behind extremists and hooligans". But both Bogdanovic and Stefanovic said they were ready to take humiliation of the the kind "if it's for the benefit of the Serbian citizens". They also told Serbs in the province they would return as soon as the parliament session in Belgrade was over to continue "fighting in a peaceful manner". Stefanovic also noted that KFOR commander Erhard Buehler on Fridy said he would "not make concessions tomorrow" and that the would remove by force Serb barricades. "We solved the problem for the day, and we'll have to solve it tomorrow too. The only solution is to return to the previous state of affairs. There's no return to the dialogue with Pristina without that," he told the state broadcaster RTS, in reference to the situation at the Jarinje and Brnjak checkpoints in the Serb north before the Kosovo Albanian government in Pristina sent police unit to take them over. Bogdanovic also expressed his hope the Serbian parliament would abandon partisan interests and show unity today: "This evil must not serve partisan interests." (Beta)

KFOR soldiers "treat Serbian officials like criminals"

They were headed to Belgrade after almost a week in the province in order to attend an urgent parliament session on Kosovo.

The soldiers, the two officials said, treated them like criminals. When Stefanović at one point went toward the checkpoint on foot, American soldiers cocked their rifles and shouted at him to return.

Stefanović said he believed such treatment "did not exist even in Iraq", and noted that "we are not the enemies of KFOR, and the state of Serbia does not stand behind extremists and hooligans".

But both Bogdanović and Stefanović said they were ready to take humiliation of the the kind "if it's for the benefit of the Serbian citizens".

They also told Serbs in the province they would return as soon as the parliament session in Belgrade was over to continue "fighting in a peaceful manner".

Stefanović also noted that KFOR commander Erhard Buehler on Fridy said he would "not make concessions tomorrow" and that the would remove by force Serb barricades.

"We solved the problem for the day, and we'll have to solve it tomorrow too. The only solution is to return to the previous state of affairs. There's no return to the dialogue with Priština without that," he told the state broadcaster RTS, in reference to the situation at the Jarinje and Brnjak checkpoints in the Serb north before the Kosovo Albanian government in Priština sent police unit to take them over.

Bogdanović also expressed his hope the Serbian parliament would abandon partisan interests and show unity today: "This evil must not serve partisan interests."

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