UNMIK calls off foreign troop training SRNA

UNMIK calls off foreign troop training
SRNA - May 6, 2003

PRISTINA -- Tuesday – The United Nations Mission in Kosovo has dropped programs to train Kosovo Protection Corps members outside the province after it was established that two members had been involved in mining the Kosovo Polje-Lesak railway line.

UNMIK has financed the training of corps members in Germany, Turkey, South Africa and Albania since the beginning of last year.

Two members of the Kosovo Protection Corps were killed while attempting to blow up the railway bridge. Both were also members of the Albanian National Army.

Kosovo governor Michael Steiner has branded the Albanian National Army a terrorist organisation.

The Albanian National Army consists largely of former members of the outlawed Kosovo Liberation Army, as does the Kosovo Protection Corps.