Hasani: KFOR deployment at border points in the north has two implications

A new Kosovo Government decision on reciprocity against Serbia for vehicle license plates highlighted an old problem in the country's north.

Local residents of the area blocked roads by setting barricades near border points at Jarinje and Brnjak. To preserve, as Kosovo executive argued, the Border Police during the implementation of the move at two border points in the country's north were sent to special police forces. Ten days after the created situation, a meeting between the Kosovo and Serbian parties took place in the European capital under the mediation of Miroslav Lajcak, special delegate to Kosovo-Kosovo dialogue. Serbia from the European Union.

A deal in principle, as Kosovo's representative at this meeting said Wednesday evening, Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi, is for the Kosovo Special Police Unit to be replaced by KFOR forces.

But, according to former Constitutional Court and university professor Enver Hasani, the proposal for KFOR's deployment at border points in the country's north is not well thought out. According to him, it has two consequences.

This implies that KFOR is taking over the jurisdiction of Kosovo state authorities. This has two consequences: the first one, gives KFOR a security mandate, so not a military mandate, belonging to Kosovo police authorities; and, second, defers the formation of the Kosovo Army because with this Kosovo is showing that it has no capacity to build neutral and reliable military structures according to NATO standards”, Hasani said in a response to KALLO.com.

According to Hasan, it is state bodies that must care for security in Kosovo. While, according to him, KFOR is here as the last “in the event of radical social disorders endangering regional peace and security and, more broadly,”.

“KFOR in Kosovo acts on the express request of Kosovo authorities. This, as it is happening now, has nothing to do with this KFOR mandate, but with the return of its primary mandate in a mandate belonging to Kosovo's” security bodies, Enver Hasani praised as commenting on recent developments in the country's north.

In a Facebook statement, Kosovo government's number two, Besnik Bislimi, said that on Saturday KFOR is expected to replace the Kosovo Police Special Forces in the country's north.

On Saturday, October 2nd, KFOR forces will be deployed at the Jarinje and Brnjak border crossings, and several hours after their deployment, will start with the removal of barricades and also the shift of Kosovo's special police unit. KFOR units will stay at the border crossings approximately two weeks and can leave the crossings then in the event of complete calming the” situation, he said.