Kfor: Cooperation has contributed to improved security

PRISTINA - The security situation in Kosovo has improved, the Kfor commander, Italian Major General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, has said.

These achievements have been reached as a result of continuous endeavours and cooperation among all the parties involved in the normalisation process, Figliuolo said after Friday's meeting with the Serbian Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Ljubisa Dikovic.

After the meeting, he affirmed the "constant and impartial efforts of the NATO mission in order to maintain a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement, thus creating the necessary conditions to help and support progress, democracy and modernisation in Kosovo," Kfor said in a statement.

Figliuolo's meeting in Krusevac was one in a series of top-level meetings with the highest-ranking officials of regional countries.

At the end of the meeting, both generals confirmed that their cooperation will continue in the future, the statement said.

The Serbian Armed Forces said in a statement on Friday that Dikovic and Figliuolo discussed the security situation iin Kosovo-Metohija and along the administrative line, as well as past and future cooperation between the Serbian Armed Forces and Kfor.

After the meeting in the Emperor Lazar army barracks, they took a tour of the Serbian Armed Forces' CBRN defence training centre.

Photo Tanjug, M. Jelesijevic