NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will travel to Kosovo on Friday to meet NATO-led international peacekeepers and Kosovo's leaders, said the alliance on Thursday.
The visit is de Hoop Scheffer's first trip to the territory after Kosovo's ethnic Albanian authorities unilaterally declared independence from Serbia last month.
De Hoop Scheffer will meet Kosovo Force (KFOR) commander Lt. Gen. Xavier de Marnhac and visit KFOR troops.
He will also meet Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci as well as head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Joachim Ruecker, and European Union envoy Pieter Feith.
De Hoop Scheffer will adventure into the Serb-dominated north of Kosovo and meet community leaders, said the alliance.
NATO is leading the 16,000-strong KFOR, which was deployed under a UN Security Council resolution to maintain security and stability in the Serbian province after the Kosovo war in 1999.
De Hoop Scheffer has said KFOR will stay in Kosovo, arguing that the resolution still serves as KFOR's legal basis.
Source:Xinhua
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