The KFOR mission responded to the occasion claims The international crisis group from April, which was conveyed yesterday by Lord Mark Lancaster in the report "Western Balkans - renewed security challenges at the door of NATO" at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Alliance in Sofia.
Lancaster stated in the report that KFOR members after the conflict between the police and attacker in Banjska in September last year "negotiated the withdrawal of the rest of the group to the surrounding forests, from which they disappeared".
Footage of an armed group of Serbs who were led Milan Radoičić how it moves through the glades at Banjska village caused numerous controversies and doubts in the public. So far, two international reports have stated that KFOR played a significant role during their retreat.
"That is not true. "KFOR was not involved in the alleged negotiations at any time," the announcement states.
It is also stated that after the events in Banjska, NATO deployed around 1.000 additional soldiers to Kosovo and Metohija and that KFOR closely coordinated with the police and EULEX in order to restore security in that area.
Last year, on September 24, there was a conflict between about 30 Serbs and the Kosovo police, during which four people died.
The former vice-president of the Serbian List, Milan Radoičić, took full responsibility for the events in the village of Banjska in the north of Kosovo.
