NATO troops soon in transit through Serbia
16 October 2006 | 18:10 | Source: Beta
BELGRADE -- U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Polt says NATO troops might soon
use Serbian territory for transit.
“I believe you will soon be able to switch your cameras to record NATO
transits, which will pass through Serbia on their way to other destinations”
, Polt said, announcing the opening of a NATO liaison office in Belgrade. A
previous agreement signed between the State Union and NATO will make this
possible.
The agreement on the conditions of transit was signed earlier by NATO
Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and former State Union Foreign Minister
Vuk Drašković. The agreement was ratified in the former parliament.
After his visit to the Serbian Army Peace Operations Center, Polt told
journalist that the cooperation in the security sector was fast improving after
the signing of the SOFA agreement.
Ambassador Polt and Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stanković expressed
satisfaction over the high level of the three-week international course
attended by the first class of the UN peacekeeping missions military observes.
12 Serbian army officers and 14 of their Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian,
Montenegrin, Macedonian and Finnish colleagues completed the course.
”I am astounded by the level of cooperation between the people from the
countries which were until recently in conflict. I am amazed not only with the
good conditions the course provided, but also with a clear vision of Serbia as
the United States’ partner in maintaining global peace”, Ambassador Polt was
quoted.
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