Tuesday, December 9, 2008

In Kosovo, earned a civil police mission EU.

Tuesday, 9 December 2008, officially began its work on civil-European Union Police Mission in Kosovo. Representatives of the EU will take the place of the UN, which monitored the stability of the former Serbian province over the past 10 years, tells AFP.
The number of the mission, known as EULEX (it is officially called "Mission to establish law and order in Kosovo"), representing 1900 people. EULEX will monitor the work of police, courts and customs authorities, said BBC News. The main task of an EU mission - to help the new leadership of the edge of defeat corruption and crime.
Note that although Belgrade and refuses to recognize Kosovo an independent republic and still considers part of its land territory, the Serbian authorities finally agreed to the deployment of an EU mission. Spokesman Viktor EULEX Reuters noted that the mission would operate in the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and the ethnic Serbs (which stresses the AFP, opposed the mission, EU) will have work in the police and the courts.
The parliament of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia edge in February 2008. Independent Republic of Kosovo acknowledged the U.S. government, as well as most countries - EU members. Official Belgrade and the leadership of Russia and several other countries, review the status of Kosovo and refused to believe that the region had been withdrawn from Kosovo in violation of international law.

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