Pristina wants to form gendarmerie unit

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The minister of internal affairs the provisional institutions in Pristina, Xhelal Svecla, has announced that he signed the decision on the formation of a working group that will analyze and propose modalities for the functioning of a gendarmerie unit, which he said would be a part of the ministry.

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According to a Facebook post, the tasks of this so-called gendarmerie would be to strengthen the capacities for prevention, management and neutralization of threats to so-called Kosovo.

Svecla also stated that the unit would be deployed against terrorism, in managing high-risk riots and protecting critical infrastructure.

According to UN Security Council Resolution 1244, KFOR is the only armed force allowed in Kosovo and Metohija, and that document also provided for the demilitarization of the so-called KLA and other armed ethnic Albanian groups.

However, in 2009, Pristina formed the so-called Kosovo Security Force (KSF) from the Kosovo Protection Corps, i.e. the former KLA. In 2018, the assembly of the provisional institutions - without the presence of Serb representatives - adopted a law on the transformation of the so-called KSF into an army.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)