“NATO will support Belgrade-Priština agreement”

Source: B92

BRUSSELS -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that NATO will do everything to implement an agreement reached by Belgrade and Priština.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Beta, file)

Rasmussen also said that the Alliance supported EU High Representative Catherine Ashton’s efforts to reach an agreement.
“NATO supports the dialogue and we are ready to play our role if an agreement is reached,” he told a press conference.

However, he did not say whether NATO would give guarantees that the Kosovo army would not enter Serb municipalities, which is one of the key requests of the Belgrade delegation in the talks with Prištiina.

Rasmussen said he was in “constant contact with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton”.

“The EU and NATO work closely together and coordinate their moves,” the NATO secretary general stressed and expressed hope that an agreement would be reached “very soon”.

The tenth round of the Belgrade-Priština talks will be held in Brussels today.