Hzebickova: Frustration is growing in Kosovo
Frustration is growing in Kosovo and unless EULEX implements laws, there could be violence, says Janina Hzebickova, appointed as Czech ambassador in Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, October 05, 2010
She told Prague daily Pravo that violence could break out unless EULEX arrested Serb and other criminals.
Hzebickova went on to say that security was guaranteed in 80 percent of the territory of Kosovo, except in the north, and that taxpayers in countries that sent their soldiers to serve in KFOR no longer had to pay for them.
"For 11 years in northern Kosovo international UN administration for political reasons turned a blind eye and left paramilitary and criminal groups alone. They are doing as they please there, lawlessness is flourishing. Anything is being smuggled there, drugs, prostitutes, and Serbs and Albanians take part," according to this diplomat.
Hzebickova also gave the example of coexistence of Serbs and ethnic Albanians south of the Ibar River, and said she expected EULEX to start exerting pressure to implement laws.
