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Meeting in Brussels on 9 June, NATO Ministers of Defence confirmed that KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, would maintain its full operational capability of around 17,000 troops.
Meetingin Brussels on 9 June, NATO Ministers of Defence confirmed that KFOR,the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, would maintain its fulloperational capability of around 17,000 troops.
Speakingat a press conference, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffertold reporters that KFOR would maintain its combat capability as theprovince enters the sensitive period of the so-called ‘standardsreview’.
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A UN-led review of the province’s compliance with internationalstandards – including the rights and freedom of movement of minorities- is due this summer. Depending on its outcome, it could lead to theinitiation of negations on the final status of Kosovo and is widelyregarded as a very important moment for Kosovo’s future.
The sensitivity of the situation in the province was highlighteddramatically in March last year, when 19 people died in widespreadriots that NATO has assessed to have been orchestrated largely byethnic Albanian extremists.
Since then, KFOR has significantly improved its capability to handle such disturbances, tripling its crowd control capability.
Member countries have also removed a number of caveats on how theirtroops can be used, providing the KFOR Commander with greaterflexibility in responding to any such situations in the future and inmoving troops to hotspots.