BELGRADE (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd November, 2018) Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said Friday they no longer trusted the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo after a Kosovo police incursion into a Serb-run area.
"President Vucic said Serbia would continue acting responsibly despite having no more reasons to trust the KFOR mission, which is NATO in Kosovo and Metohija, after it lied about Kosovo police movements," the president's press office said in a statement.
The Serbian leaders met with Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin after an intervention this morning by Kosovo police in the Serb-run northern part of Mitrovica, an ethnically divided town in North Kosovo. They arrested four Serbs over the killing of a local Serb politician in January.
KFOR, which has been operating in Kosovo since 1999, defended the operation in a statement, saying no military force had been deployed to the area, and denied threat to civilians.
The Russian ambassador said Moscow had been monitoring the crisis in Kosovo, which Serbia regards as its southern Kosovo and Metohija region. Chepurin added he was convinced that Serbia "can react responsibly to provocations."
