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okay for is reducing its forces . Is it

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a sign that everything is going well in

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Kosovo ? I think so . The cost of

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operation has been a success story for

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years now , but we have to organize the

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last third of our mission , I would

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like to say . So we are reducing the

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force from 10,000 to 5500 . This is the

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so called step two and in the future

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will have territorial commands ,

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commands all over Kosovo five with L .

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M . T . S , liaison monitoring teams

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and two battle groups , maneuver battle

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groups and technically reserves . This

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is enough I think to tackle the

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situation , the security situation is

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good , it's calm , it's not stable yet ,

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especially in the north . So the main

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effort still has to be in the north ,

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but I think we can afford to reduce the

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force Now . Do you work with the local

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forces as far as I'm not sending your

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engaged with the training of the local

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forces as well . We worked very closely

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together with the local police force .

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This is 1 1 side and the other side ,

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we are responsible on behavior behalf

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of NATO for the build up and training

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and advising of the Kosovo security

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force . The Kosovo security force is a

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light armed disaster relief

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organization for the time being . And

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the progress they have made in the last

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years is remarkable . And so I expect

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and I hope that we see final

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operating capability next year . Um

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you're starting gradually to transfer

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the security of some of the Orthodox

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monastery uh to the local forces , uh

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is it how it's going ? Uh What is the

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planning there ? Yeah , the transfer of

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responsibility is actually part of the

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restructuring process . So we have , so

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to say unfixed our forces from from

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remaining tasks guarding monasteries .

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For example , the process went went

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very well . In the in the past month

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and weeks we transferred almost all all

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monasteries to the local police were

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just guarding four monasteries right

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now . The performance of the Kosovo

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police is very good . Uh They supervise

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their guards . They are eager to make

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no mistakes and to be reliable and so

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I'm quite confident that we can

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continue this process in the future .

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Last question , how do you work with

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Eulex ? The european Union mission that

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starts a few years ago , we have to

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work very closely together , especially

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in the field of law enforcement . We

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have to assist them . We have to

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support them . That's uh I mean we are

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not doing law enforcement tasks but we

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are providing a safe and secure secure

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environment for the police to work in .

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So we started in october , for example ,

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a large operation in the north of

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Kosovo Joint commitment north to tackle

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them criminals . Criminality to attack

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our other issues in the north

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to provide the citizens of safe and

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secure environment . Thank you