Belgrade, Kosovo Serbs blast creation of KSF

Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Monday that Serbia would insist on the disbanding of the Kosovo Security Force, whose official establishment was announced for Wednesday.
   "Serbia does not accept the formation of the Kosovo Security Force and we will never accept such a solution," Tadic told television B92.
   Tadic recalled that Serbia had proposed the demilitarization of the province during the status talks as the best solution for the security challenges on the ground.
   "We will constantly insist at international fora and NATO on the disbanding of such forces, because they do not contribute to security in Kosovo," Tadic said.

   Serbian Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Goran Bogdanovic added on Tuesday that Serbia and Kosovo Serbs were against the forming of any security forces, in particular monoethnic or uninational ones.
   "At this point, it is unnecessary to form new armed forces, when Kosovo is becoming a powder keg and when there are between 350,000 and 400,000 long barrels in Kosovo," Bogdanovic said, also speaking to Belgrade-based TV B92.
   He claimed the newly formed Kosovo Security Force "was no different than the notorious KLA, which itself only changed uniforms into the Kosovo Protection Corps."
   The Serbian minister also called for a complete demilitarization of Kosovo and reminded that the creation of the KSF was a breach of UNSC Resolution 1244, according to which only NATO'S KFOR troops could carry weapons in Kosovo.

   Marko Jaksic, a Kosovo Serb leader, said Monday that the participation of the Serbs in the Kosovo Security Force would be a huge mistake, "because that military formation is being developed on the foundations of a guerilla that drove Kosovo Serbs out of the province in 1999."
   "This is why I believe that the Serbs should not be a part of KBS," Jaksic said, adding that new forces in Kosovo could disrupt the already fragile security situation.