Kurti remembers General Jackson: Health s '%e left to come to Kosovo, died of prostate cancer

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has remembered General Michael Jackson, the first commander of KFOR, who died on Tuesday.

Through a text on the social network Facebook, Kurti has said health did not let him come to Kosovo, to join in marking the 25th anniversary of the country's liberation.

“Health did not allow it to come to Kosovo and join the notes of the 25th anniversary of our country's liberation, but General Michael Jackson has entered Kosovo's modern history forever. At 80, on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, British General Mike Jackson died of prostate cancer.

Mike Jackson was the man who signed the Military Technical Agreement in Kumanovo on 9 June 1999 on behalf of NATO troops, who ended the war in Kosovo by marking the surrender of the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian Police. General Jackson was the first commander of the military troops of KFOR mission, thus leading the final phase of Kosovo's liberation in June 1999. ” He wrote.

In the end, Kurt said:

The “Life and Mike Jackson's career was a life devoted by the military, just as he himself suggests in his autobiographical book, entitled simply “Army”.

The people and the state of Kosovo remember their friends and supporters on the endless road to the history of freedom and statehood.

In memory of General Michael Jackson, with deep gratitude and high marks of”.