KFOR says Kosovo special units do not need our permission to enter the north

In an interview for the “show Slobodno srpski”, Grasso has said this police action has been legal against criminals and that for these actions anywhere in the world, police do not inform the public, and therefore, “as we have been informed”.

That operation was a police operation, and in no country did police inform the public of police operations, and so we haven't been notified about it. And we never said we were informed, nor did we inform anyone about the “, said Grasso, while stressing that the statement made after police action that the “s have all been informed in advance of the police action in northern Kosovo” has been misinterpreted.

And what I said, which opened the whole discussion, in an interview for him. TV The next morning, after the operation, everyone was informed. This is translated and interpreted as KFOR has told someone, but what I said was that everyone has been notified in the sense that information has been known because we've read that news and exactly in 17 there's been a lot of news reports that have been reporting this type of operation and others, and that I've said that's what surprise was”, Grasso said.

The act of arresting suspects for criminal acts conducted 18 May in northern Kosovo, Grasso sees as legal police operation against criminals.

“was a police operation, conducted legally by police in the fight against criminals. Simple people can sleep quietly. There's nothing to fear. Criminals need to worry about operations like this. Of course, people should not react or hinder police work. They should agree with him and cooperate with the police when carrying out such operations. They should avoid rising tensions and escalation of violence, as this could be dangerous”, said Grasso, broadcast Koha.net.

It says that at the start of the action, which sʹka was organised only for the northern part of the country, but also in other municipalities, were regular police units. But he adds that after the problems they faced in Zubin Potok, where a police officer was injured, the special unit has been invited.

This operation has been conducted in the southern and northern part of Mitrovica, in Zvecan, Leposaviq, Drenas, Skenderaj and Zubin Potok, and this police action has been conducted at special prosecutorial order in Pristina, quietly and normally in all countries except for Zubin Potok. What happened that morning in Zubin Potok is a consequence: When police were on their way to Zubin Potok, they had no heavy equipment or long weapons, they were shot with firearms. A cop got hit, and then the road got blocked. Then they had to call the special unit which was interviewed, and then we had that tension which, as I said, luckily remained isolated in that box”, the spokesman for KFOR, Vincenzo Grasso.

Commenting on the politicians' frequent statements in Belgrade that Kosovo Special Police Units, under an agreement with NATO, cannot enter Kosovo's north without KFOR permission and without the reconciliation of local bodies there, KFOR spokesman says such an agreement does not exist.

Kosovo's “Police is an institution that can enter and develop interrelated shares with the rule of law in Kosovo, not obligated to ask permission. What has been discussed before is an agreement between the then prime minister and NATO Secretary General Rasmussen that Kosovo's security forces, before entering the north, must first receive KFOR permission and report local organs. But that never happened. The KSF has never been engaged in the north, but the ones we've been seeing recently, which we've seen long ago, at the end of last year, are the special units of the Kosovo Police that are conducting police operations, even in the north, and it's completely in accordance with rules”, Vincenzo Grasso noted.

spokesperson Grasso says the overall security situation is good and stable and that there is no serious threat to the breakup of peace and stability in Kosovo.

But it says it's rhetoric and propaganda of political leaders on both sides that sometimes bring concern among people, it creates tensions, without any basis, evidence, and says “for us that's the real threat to stability”.

However, when it speaks of the adoption of three laws approved by the Assembly of Kosovo and through which the Defence Ministry was formed, it says Kosovo has won the military.

Grasso also spoke of the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, saying KFOR is willing to help investigate its killers.