Sejdiu picks Kosovo security forces head?

Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu will name the present Kosovo Protection Corps leader Sulejman Selimi as the commander of the Kosovo security forces. This is according to a report today in Pristina's Albanian language daily Koha Ditore. Sejdiu picks Kosovo security forces head? The newspaper says that Kosovo government vice-premier Hajredin Kuci confirmed this in a phone conversation, as well as that Selimi's name was put forward by Kosovo Premier Hashim Thaci. The nomination, the daily continues, came after demands from NATO that the consolidation of the Kosovo security forces be sped up. Selimi, who holds the rank of a general, is described as having been "the chief of the general staff" of the KLA – an ethnic Kosovo Albanian armed group that fought Serbia's security forces. He has been heading the KPC since March 2006. Meanwhile Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac said that the formation of these forces is "absolutely unacceptable for Serbia". "Serbia does not agree with the formation of the so-called Kosovo security forces, and has absolutely no understanding for anything of the sort," he said on Saturday, while touring an area near the administrative line with Kosovo, in the village of Rasevac. Sutanovac said he has not had contacts with the representatives of EULEX, and added that the opening of an office of this EU mission in Belgrade is not within the jurisdiction of his ministry. He told reporters that he expects EULEX to "fight for laws to be implemented and crime suppressed", that it will be a problem for all those involved in crime, "and those do not live in the Serb areas". The defense chief earlier today opened a reconstructed stretch of the road from Kursumlijska Banja to Rasevac, built by the members of the Serbian Army (VS).

Sejdiu picks Kosovo security forces head?

The newspaper says that Kosovo government vice-premier Hajredin Kuci confirmed this in a phone conversation, as well as that Selimi's name was put forward by Kosovo Premier Hashim Thaci.

The nomination, the daily continues, came after demands from NATO that the consolidation of the Kosovo security forces be sped up.

Selimi, who holds the rank of a general, is described as having been "the chief of the general staff" of the KLA – an ethnic Kosovo Albanian armed group that fought Serbia's security forces. He has been heading the KPC since March 2006.

Meanwhile Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said that the formation of these forces is "absolutely unacceptable for Serbia".

"Serbia does not agree with the formation of the so-called Kosovo security forces, and has absolutely no understanding for anything of the sort," he said on Saturday, while touring an area near the administrative line with Kosovo, in the village of Raševac.

Šutanovac said he has not had contacts with the representatives of EULEX, and added that the opening of an office of this EU mission in Belgrade is not within the jurisdiction of his ministry.

He told reporters that he expects EULEX to "fight for laws to be implemented and crime suppressed", that it will be a problem for all those involved in crime, "and those do not live in the Serb areas".

The defense chief earlier today opened a reconstructed stretch of the road from Kuršumlijska Banja to Raševac, built by the members of the Serbian Army (VS).