KFOR UNMIK CAN'T GUARANTEE SAFETY IN KOSOVO

KFOR, UNMIK “can’t guarantee full security”
SRNA - April 5, 2004

KOSOVO POLJE -- Monday – International police and peacekeepers in Kosovo said today that they cannot take responsibility for security in the province.

KFOR and UNMIK officials, meeting Serb representatives from a number of villages near Kosovo Polje, insisted, however, that they would arrest anyone suspected of involvement in last month’s wave of violence in the region.

“Our policy for the past five years has been wrong, and all our efforts to establish multiethnic communities was destroyed on March 17,” said UNMIK official Robert Ngangua.

The international officials also said they were unable to provide an escort for school buses because of a lack of manpower.

More than a hundred houses were set on fire in Kosovo Polje during the March violence.