Stefanovic announces talks on integration of Serb policemen

BELGRADE - Serbia's Police Director Milorad Veljovic and representatives of the Kosovo police will discuss integration of Serb police officers from the southern Serbian province in the Kosovo police structure, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday.

Speaking at a meeting of the Serbian parliament's Defence and Internal Affairs Committee, Stefanovic said that the meeting between the heads of police from Belgrade and Pristina would also be used to discuss other issues related to the security of the Serb population in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) and problems facing the Serb community.

Stefanovic said that Belgrade would continue to insist on finding those who killed Serbian Gendarmerie member Stevan Sindjelic in the Ground Safety Zone, along the administrative line between central Serbia and KiM.

Stefanovic said that answering a question by committee member Goran Bogdanovic about what would happen to those Serb police officers who could not get integrated in the Kosovo police structures because the Pristina authorities did not want that.

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