Feith: EULEX will need KFOR's help

Special EU representative to Kosovo Pieter Feith says the EULEX mission will need NATO’s help to establish control in Kosovo.

Friday, 28.03.2008.

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Special EU representative to Kosovo Pieter Feith says the EULEX mission will need NATO’s help to establish control in Kosovo. In an interview with AP, Feith said 16,000 KFOR troops should allow his staff to convince the Serbs to let them work on their territory. Feith: EULEX will need KFOR's help “The [EULEX] mission will depend on NATO forces who should secure the territory,” the EU official explained. Commenting on yesterday’s statement by Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic in Jakarta that the Kosovo Ministry’s proposal was for a transitional solution for Serbian-UNMIK cooperation in the new circumstances following Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration, he said that there was little chance of that proposal finding international support. Feith said that the Serbian authorities lacked a constructive approach when it came to Kosovo and the deployment of the EU mission. However, the EU official said that the Kosovo Serbs had shown that they “responded” to the EU’s message, which highlights “the special benefit” for minorities in the province. The EU is attempting to convince the Serb minority to accept its presence in Kosovo via economic incentives that it intends to send them. Belgrade rejects the EU mission’s presence in Kosovo as illegal. AP reports from Pristina that the UN “will transfer power to Kosovo state organs in June, together with the EU, who should ensure that the Kosovo institutions respect the rights of the Serb minority.” Pieter Feith (FoNet, archive)

Feith: EULEX will need KFOR's help

“The [EULEX] mission will depend on NATO forces who should secure the territory,” the EU official explained.

Commenting on yesterday’s statement by Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić in Jakarta that the Kosovo Ministry’s proposal was for a transitional solution for Serbian-UNMIK cooperation in the new circumstances following Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration, he said that there was little chance of that proposal finding international support.

Feith said that the Serbian authorities lacked a constructive approach when it came to Kosovo and the deployment of the EU mission.

However, the EU official said that the Kosovo Serbs had shown that they “responded” to the EU’s message, which highlights “the special benefit” for minorities in the province.

The EU is attempting to convince the Serb minority to accept its presence in Kosovo via economic incentives that it intends to send them.

Belgrade rejects the EU mission’s presence in Kosovo as illegal.

AP reports from Priština that the UN “will transfer power to Kosovo state organs in June, together with the EU, who should ensure that the Kosovo institutions respect the rights of the Serb minority.”

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