‘NATO refused Serbia’s request to return its troops to Kosovo’
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – NATO peacekeepers, known as the Kosovo Force, or KFOR, have refused Serbia’s request to deploy its security forces to Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday.
Vucic in December requested that up to 1,000 police and military personnel return to Kosovo in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
UN Security Council Resolution 1244 stipulates that Serbia has right to deploy up to 1,000 members of its security forces in Kosovo.
“We all knew and expected this answer … They believe that there is no need for the return of the army and armed forces of Serbia to the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, referring to Resolution 1244 and saying that in accordance with it, they play their role. They did not refer to the part of the resolution according to which it is possible to reject it because there is no such thing,” Vucic told reporters.