LJUBLJANA, April 23 (Hina) - Even though NATO will most probably decide to end the Stabilisation Force Mission in Bosnia at its summit in Istanbul and hand over the peace mission to the European Union, it will remain in the Balkans
because of the instability in Kosovo, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said in an exclusive interview for a Slovenian daily.
LJUBLJANA, April 23 (Hina) - Even though NATO will most probably decide
to end the Stabilisation Force Mission in Bosnia at its summit in
Istanbul and hand over the peace mission to the European Union, it
will remain in the Balkans because of the instability in Kosovo, NATO
Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said in an exclusive interview
for a Slovenian daily.#L#
The European Union wants to continue the mission in Bosnia, but that
does not mean that NATO is leaving the Balkans, he said.
According to him, NATO's mission in Bosnia will be focused on the
defence reforms and search for war crimes indictees.
The NATO Secretary General is on his first official visit to Slovenia
on Friday, as part of his tour of countries that joined NATO in the
last expansion round.
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