(ANSA) - BELGRADE, JANUARY 20 - Nato's Kosovo Force (KFOR)
commander, Italian general Michele Risi, met today the Italian
ambassador to Pristina, Nicola Orlando. Risi presented an update
on the Kfor mission and the situation in Kosovo in terms of
security, as well as politics, society, and economy.
Ambassador Orlando, who met the Italian military on duty in
Pristina, underlined for his part - reads a press release issued
by the Kfor - "the essential role of the Kfor mission and the
Italian contingent to guarantee a safe environment and freedom
movement for all citizens of Kosovo, not to mention the support
of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina which the European
Union considers as the only lasting political solution." The
mission in Kosovo, which began in 1999 under a mandate from the
United Nations and to date the longest of the Atlantic Alliance,
currently counts on 3,500 soldiers from 27 nations and is
commanded by an Italian general for the seventh year in a row.
(ANSA).
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