Senior Nato officials to begin Kosovo tour
Senior Nato officials are to tour Kosovo today amid tensions over the future of the UN-run Serbian province.
Members of the Nato military committee will inspect installations around the province sheltering some 16,000 peacekeepers serving as part of an alliance-led mission known as K-FOR, a NATO spokesman said.
Some 40 officers from Nato nations are to meet with the top Nato official in Kosovo, German Lt. Gen. Roland Kather in the provincial capital Pristina, Lt. Col Hubert Schmidt said.
The military committee is Nato’s highest military authority in charge of draft policies and strategy for the alliance.
Kosovo’s leaders are engaged in UN-run talks aimed at forging out an agreement with Serbia over whether the province will become independent or remain within Serbia’s borders.
But the talks have produced few results, casting a shadow over the possibility of finding an agreed solution by the end of the year.
