KFOR to remain in Kosovo "as long as needed"

NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) will remain in Kosovo an Metohija "as long as needed," says US General Curtis Scaparrotti.

The supreme Allied commander Europe of NATO Allied Command Operations, who was in Belgrade on Wednesday for meetings with Serbia's top state and military officials, told Tanjug in an exclusive interview NATO was concerned by the proposal to transform the Kosovo Security Force into a Kosovo army without constitutional changes.

However, he "welcomed the readiness of all communities living there to engage in a debate about the future of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF)."

According to him, the KSF is "increasingly recruiting members from all communities, and NATO will continue to support its development as an even more professional and more efficient force within the current mandate."

"However, if the mandate of the Kosovo Security Force...