Drecun: Kosovo army would be successor of terrorist KLA

BELGRADE - Establishment of a Kosovo army would increase the lack of security for Serbs and other non-Albanian communities because it would, in fact, be a successor of the terrorist "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA), Milovan Drecun, the former chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija, said on Tuesday.

"That army is absolutely unnecessary - it would destabilise the situation rather than stabilise it," Drecun told the RTS.

The Assembly of Kosovo is on Tuesday expected to vote on forming Kosovo's armed forces after the debate was put off the agenda on Monday.

Drecun said that he does not see "who is making some kind of an army necessary by endangering security in Kosovo," noting that "under UN SC Resolution 1244, an army already exists in Kosovo, and that is Kfor."

Only pretensions aimed at creating a Greater Albania can endanger the security of the people in Kosovo-Metohija, he said.

Commenting on the likelihood of Kosovo armed forces being formed despite opposition from Belgrade and Serb members of the Kosovo assembly - who did not attend Monday's session - Drecun said that a law aimed at bypassing the Serbs' opposition is under preparation.

"Pristina needs to pass a law that would create the legal framework for forming the community of Serb municipalities - not discriminatory laws widening the already large gap between the Serbs and ethnic Albanians," Drecun said.

The law under preparation will not improve inter-ethnic relations, but will, "on the contrary, serve the purpose of achieving other goals," said Drecun, who did not rule out the possibility of a Kosovo army being formed, "not by the will of all who live there, but by imposing the will of the ethnic-Albanian...