Lt-Gen de Kermabon heads EULEX, Feith special representative of EU
Former commander of the KFOR, French Lieutenant-General Yves de Kermabon will head the European Union mission to Kosovo in the area of the police and the judiciary, EULEX, while Dutch diplomat Pieter Feith will be the EU special representative.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Lt-Gen de Kermabon and Feith will answer to EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana.
The two appointments will become official this week after the necessary documents are adopted.
Lt-Gen de Kermabon, 58, was appointed to this office because he is very familiar with the field since this would be his fourth term of service in Kosovo province in the past six years.
The French general will be receiving political instructions from Feith, as the EU special representative.
Feith will coordinate all the EU activities in Kosovo, with special emphasis on the development of human rights and elementary freedoms in Kosovo.
The Dutch diplomat was EU envoy in Aceh, where he supervised the "substantial autonomy" deal for the Indonesian secessionist province brokered by... Martti Ahtisaari.
This time around, Feith is expected to implement the contrary: a "supervised independence" prooposed by the former Finnish president.
