B92, January 26, 2003
DOS demands return of police, army to Kosovo
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s governing DOS coalition is to call for the return of at least one contingent of Yugoslav security forces to the estranged province of Kosovo.
Miodrag Isakov, who chaired the DOS presidency meeting, said that the return of the police and army was the most important of Serbia’s rights under UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which is the legal basis for Kosovo’s international administration.
The DOS presidency agreed to insist on exercising all Serbia’s rights under Resolution 1244.
Kosovo Serb leader Momcilo Trajkovic told Radio B92 today that he was pleased with the resolution, but that the question remained of whether it would be possible for the Serbian police and the Yugoslav Army to return to Kosovo.
The president of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Dusan Janjic, said that while it was encouraging that the initiative had been taken, the scant announcement from a DOS meeting was unsatisfactory.
He told B92 that the coalition should publish its policy on Kosovo in full.
The Democratic Party of Serbia and other parts of the society should also be included in the initiative, he said, because an integrated and organised approach was necessary to solve the problem of Kosovo.
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