Subject: KFOR, Yugoslavs in Kosovo border clash talks: Robertson
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 7:40:14 PST
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BRUSSELS, Nov 28 (AFP) - The NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) and
the Yugoslav army are in talks to find ways to deal with "a handful
of terrorists" on the Serbia-Kosovo border, NATO Secretary General
George Robertson said Tuesday.
"These consultations are taking place at the moment with the
view to dealing with the actions of an handful of terrorists who
have no interest in stability in that region," Lord Robertson said.
"KFOR takes its responsabilities very seriously indeed,"
Robertson added, following a meeting at NATO headquarters with
Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga.
Belgrade warned Friday it would move its security forces into a
buffer zone along the Kosovo-Serbia border if KFOR proved incapable
of halting attacks by ethnic Albanians fighters on the Serbian side
of the line.
The Liberation Army of Presevo-Medevedja-Bujanovac, presumed to
be operating from inside Kosovo, want the three towns for which
their group is named to be annexed to a potentially independent
Kosovo.
Robertson said KFOR's commander, Italian Lieutenant General
Carlo Cabigiosu, was taking "robust action at the present moment to
deal with any possible incursions from Kosovo into the ground
security zone."
The KFOR-Yugoslav talks were being carried out within a Joint
Implementation Council set up in June 1999 after Serbia surrendered
Kosovo to UN administration following 11 weeks of NATO air strikes.