Prime Minister Albin Kurti stated that one of the biggest shocks he experienced when he took office was when he learned that the Kosovo Security Force could not cross the Ibri and go to the four northern municipalities with a Serbian majority.
In April 2013, the then Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi, through a letter sent to the Secretary General of NATO at that time, Anders Rasmussen, had guaranteed that the KSF will undertake a mission in the north of Kosovo only with the prior consent of KFOR .
Recently, during a public appearance, the commander of KFOR, Enrico Barduani, said that he has also received guarantees from the current Minister of Defense, Ejup Makedonci, that the KSF will not go to the north.
The Macedonian minister himself, in an answer to A2 CNN, stated that it is not a question of rezoning, since this agreement was made at a higher level, but only a guarantee for respecting the letter of 2019: "It is not a question of rezoning because the commitment of in 2013 he became the Prime Minister and Secretary General of NATO. We are continuing to honor the former Prime Minister's 2013 pledge, despite our assessment that that pledge was wrong and harmful to our military. I have emphasized respecting this promise in all my public appearances and it is nothing new".
However, the letter that Macedonci says he sent to the KFOR commander was made to clarify the engagement of a KSF unit in the north which had gone without the consent of KFOR.
"The purpose of the letter was to clarify to the Commander of KFOR that the engagement of a KSF unit in one of the four municipalities in the north of Kosovo that happened a few days before the letter was sent is not intended to tense the situation. In the letter, I clarified the circumstances of the engagement of the KSF unit and reiterated that Kosovo institutions will continue to respect the commitment made on April 19, 2013 for the engagement of the KSF in operations in the north after prior coordination with the KFOR Commander. , says Macedonci.
The last time KFOR was asked for permission for the KSF to go to the north was on November 29 of last year, after the explosion in the Ibër Lepenci canal, but such a thing was refused. KFOR had estimated that it is capable of keeping the situation under control together with the Kosovo Police, without the presence of the Kosovo Security Force. (A2 Televizion)
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