Serbian minister urges Montenegro not to send officers to Kosovo without asking Serbia

Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin has asked Montenegro today not to send officers to Kosovo because Serbia has not been asked, and that it will make its reports worse, as well as stability in the Balkans.

Montenegro's Security and Defence Council has approved the proposal for the decision to participate members of the Montenegrin Army in the KFOR mission in Kosovo. The involvement of two staff officers, of which one will be at the Mission Command in Pristina and the other at the Mission Regional Command in Skopje, reports Serbian news agency “beta”.

Responding to journalists' questions on the subject, Volin said: “asked a lot of affection from Montenegro and the Montenegrin Defence Ministry to think again and not send the army to Kosovo and Metohija”,

Vulin added that the “authorities in Montenegro know very well that Kosovo and Metohia are part of Serbia's state under UN Resolution 1244, and reminded them that during the time of NATO's aggression, they have been part of the same state and that Montenegrin citizens have also been killed on the part of the same aggressor”.

“Lus frankly (the authorities in Montenegro) not to send them (the officers in Kosovo) to avoid taking such action, not to ask the Republic of Serbia, because if they did so (the officers' position), certainly they would not help dialogue (Serbia-Kosovo), of course they will not help stabilise our region, and they will certainly not help improve the reports (of Montenegro) with the state of Serbia”, the Seal, the Timenet broadcast.

Political analyst Aleksandar Radic, last night on Montenegrin television, has said that the participation of Montenegrin officers in the KFOR mission in Kosovo will not present a problem in reports between Montenegro and Serbia because the KFOR mission is the only real “security and stability sector”.