Tuesday, 2 December 2008

EU to operate 'all over Kosovo'

The EU's police and justice mission will start deploying throughout Kosovo on 9 December, including to Serb-controlled areas, EU officials say.
Under the plan, approved by the UN Security Council, nearly 2,000 EU police, justice and customs officials will take over UN duties in Kosovo.
But the UN mission - called Unmik - will retain a political role.
The EU's "Eulex" mission was supposed to start earlier. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February.
Several thousand Kosovo Albanians demonstrated in the capital Pristina against the Eulex deployment on Tuesday - the day it was originally scheduled to start.
Protesters held banners saying "Kosovo in the EU, not under the EU" and "Eulex made in Serbia".

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