EU official: No one shall endanger the lives of people in Kosovo
The EU believes that the lives of people in Kosovo must not be threatened by the removal of Serbian mobile telephony equipment and that is why the authorities in Pristina were asked to help first those who are in the most difficult situation, Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson of the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, said in Brussels for the Beta news agency.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, April 28, 2010
When asked why EULEX let the Kosovo police to remove transmitters of Serbian mobile operators without difficulty, notice, or talks with the Serbs, Kocijancic reiterated that the situation first requires that the life of people is not disturbed.
UNMIK Spokesperson Russell Geekie has stated that Head of that mission Lamberto Zanier is worried due to the modes of operation used to remove the transmitters of Serb mobile phone providers in Kosovo.
The UNMIK Spokesperson has added that Zanier is carefully monitoring the situation relating to the mobile phone services, as well as that it can be expected to notify the UN Security Council in his next report in mid-May.
Geekie has stressed that it is of utmost importance for all involved sides to be engaged in a constructive manner, in order to find the solution that would harm neither community.
In the past few days, the units of the Kosovo police have violently disconnected 26 transmitting stations of Serbian mobile phone providers Telekom, Telenor and Vip, thus leaving some 100 thousand Serbs south of the Ibar river without signal.
