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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 12 (UPI) A senior Yugoslav army general has accused the Kosovo peacekeeping force KFOR of being unable to disarm the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) properly and asked it to go home.
Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic, commander of the Pristina army corps, told Palma Plus Television in Jagodina Saturday "if they (KFOR) are not capable of carrying out the tasks entrusted to them by the United Nations, they should go where they came from."
"Albanians have handed over obsolete arms while amassing large- caliber weapons under the sponsorship of KFOR," he said.
Last week, Gen. Lazarevic said Yugoslavia must recover Kosovo by force because it had been turned into an occupied zone and that it had the right to defend its territory and people.
Meanwhile, Zoran Andjelkovic, president of the interim Kosovo executive council, a Serbian government-appointed body, told Belgrade radio today that "if the separatist KLA is not completely disarmed by September 19, it will be a most flagrant breach of Security Council resolution 1244 and the military-technical agreement (between NATO and the Yugoslav army)."
He said 240,000 Serbs and other minorities had been expelled from Kosovo amid the return of ethnic Albanian refugees. He charged that not a single institution in the province functioned in accordance with the multiethnic principle.
Meanwhile, The leader of the Serbian national council in Mitrovica, Vuk Antonijevic, has expressed concern that violent incidents would return to the troubled town on Monday when the United Nations civilian mission has planned to form multiethnic schools in the town's Serbian- dominated northern sector.
Antonijevic told Belgrade radio B2-92 today that the Serbs refused to accept this decision not because they were against multiethnic education but because the introduction of such schools at this time was inappropriate.