Kosovo Serbs dub NATO military exercise as "provocation"
Kosovo Serbs have dubbed the Kfor exercise "Strong Gate" in northern Kosovo as a "provocation".
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, November 05, 2009
The NATO-led troops have started a two-day regular military exercise carried out in cooperation with EULEX and the Kosovo police, KPS, with the main goals of being joint training of KFOR Tactical North and Operative Reserve troops.
"The troops will get familiar with the terrain and all defense procedures at border crossings of Brnjak and Jarinje," said the NATO statement.
The two administrative line checkpoints with central Serbia are located near Leposavic and Zubin Potok in the Serb-dominated north of the province.
One of the goals of the two-day exercise is to establish cooperation among KFOR, EULEX and the KPS, the statement concluded.
However, the Serb National Council said that goal of the exercise is for KFOR and EULEX "to show that Serbia has definitively lost Kosovo and that a NATO state had been formed on Serbian soil".
