NATO Preparing To Exit Kosovo

NATO Chief Assesses Kosovo Exit Strategy -- AFP

PRISTINA — New NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen made his maiden visit to Kosovo on Thursday to evaluate his plans to trim the alliance's security mission in the breakaway Serbian province a decade after war.

Rasmussen, a former prime minister of Denmark, hopes to gradually wind down the presence of NATO's 13,800-strong Kosovo Force (KFOR) to a small reaction unit or withdraw it completely.

"I would like to stress that this decision only reflects the improvement of the security situation in Kosovo and... is conditionally based," he said in the capital Pristina.

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Update: Nato chief seeks Kosovo exit plan -- BBC

My Comment: The situation is calm now because of the presence of NATO troops. Take these troops out, it is all but a guarantee that ethnic/religious tensions will come back.

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