Shala: KFOR Can Remain in Kosovo Until Membership in NATO

Therefore, he is saying that even in the event of signing a final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, KFOR forces may be in Kosovo until the country becomes a NATO member state.

Shala has said that Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq, with his statement that soon “a powerful state will initiate the departure of KFOR and UNMIK from Kosovo” created artificial and diplomatic crises.

“Whoever has little knowledge of how the KFOR and UNMIK missions were created in Kosovo, in June 1999, knows that this happened with UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (June 10th, 1999), that this resolution is in force today of this day, and that it will be replaced with a new resolution of the highest international instance, when the comprehensive agreement between Kosovo and the normalisation of relations between these two states, Shala has written.

“U n NMIC has no role in Kosovo since Kosovo has become an independent state, while KFOR remains, as a military mission, the final guarantor of security and stability in Kosovo, which has been reminded of Serbia's highest authorities in recent years (in 2017 and 2019). KFOR, according to all odds, will stand around, not only until the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia (after signing the eventual agreement legally binding between the highest authorities of the two states), but KFOR forces will also forward the long-awaited signing of the PFP (Parterity for Peace) company between Kosovo and the North-Atlantic Alliance and Kosovo's own membership in NATO<1>.

Shala has written that the history of NATO's engagement in and in Bosnia and Herzegovina appears to him as the key decision of the US and Europe to halt successive wars in this part of the Western Balkans, as well as to create the circumstances for peace to be established in Kosovo, to initiate the company of establishing democratic power, and to resolve the Kosovo issue.