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BRUSSELS - President of NATO's Military Committee Admiral Guido Venturoni of Italy has described as delicate the situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province.
Addressing a meeting on ways of how to boost Europe's defence initiative, in Brussels on Wednesday, Admiral Venturoni said that, nearly six months after the deployment of the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR to Kosovo and Metohija, the province was still the alliance's biggest headache in the Balkans because of ethnic cleansing.
He thus admitted that both KFOR as well as NATO had failed to fulfil the key task cited in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 i.e. that they had failed to protect equally all living in the province.
Venturoni said that NATO was aware that large-scale pressure, ethnic cleansing and large-scale expulsion of the population were major problems in the province, saying only, however, that they were the result of revanchism.
He made no reference to the fact that this is a part of the strategy of ethnic Albanian terrorists and separatist whose leaders do not conceal that their goal is to cleanse the province of Serbs and all other non-Albanians.
He said that, it was not surprising that violence was not likely to end soon because he said it was deeply-rooted.