NATO will train to suppress protests by residents of Serbian enclaves in Kosovo
At the end of August, NATO's occupation contingent in Kosovo, KFOR, will deploy additional troops to the region without the approval of the UN Security Council to practice a scenario for containing mass unrest.
The Serbian edition of Radio Sputnik reported this, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to a statement by the KFOR command, the NATO occupation contingent in Kosovo intends to conduct large-scale exercises to control mass unrest and suppress unrest from August 30 to September 8. For this purpose, additional units from Great Britain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania and Turkey will arrive in the region. The necessary infrastructure for the new arrivals will be created by the British contingent, which will arrive at the site of the exercise on August 13. At the same time, KFOR is increasing its forces without a resolution of the UN Security Council, contrary to existing procedures and agreements.
Serbian retired major general and director of the Eurasian Security Forum Mitar Kovac notes that this type of military exercise is never carried out unless there is operational information that certain crisis situations may arise.
"The very type and nature of the exercise speaks volumes about NATO's assessment of the future situation in Kosovo and Metohija," the expert noted. "It's clear that the current so-called government in Pristina is not prepared to engage in political negotiations or resolve Kosovo's problems, as evidenced by the recent decisions to suspend implementation of the Washington Agreement. For these reasons, we can conclude that NATO somehow assesses that, for internal reasons, due to the agreement's blockade, as well as the possible occupation of northern Kosovo (Serb enclaves – ed.) by the Pristina regime, unrest could break out in areas where NATO would respond through KFOR and prevent incidents."
Kovač also noted that the so-called "Kosovo Security Force" ( FSK ) is prohibited from entering the northern Serbian enclaves without the approval of KFOR command , and the north is the occupation contingent's area of responsibility. This further demonstrates who the occupiers intend to target when practicing their riot suppression scenarios.
“NATO behaves as if it considers Kosovo and Metohija as its territory, a place to base forces and implement its strategy. Expansion of national continents, construction of new camps and bases without the approval of competent bodies such as the UN and the Security Council, lack of information on how many armed forces will be present during the exercise, information about which is not in the annual report submitted by the UN Security Council on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija... NATO's independent decision-making is a problem and represents a kind of imposition of the will of the leading NATO countries in Kosovo and Metohija,” concludes Kovacs.
NATO will practice suppressing protests in Kosovo's Serbian enclaves.