KFOR: There is no evidence of weapons in churches, for the rule of law responsible Kosovo

The NATO mission in Kosovo, KFOR, has said that there is no evidence of arms smuggling from Serbia to Kosovo and the use of Orthodox churches to store them. This mission has said that the security organizations of Kosovo are responsible for the rule of law.

In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the alarm was raised on Tuesday that Serbian churches are serving as places where weapons smuggled from Serbia to Kosovo are being stored. During a debate on the memory of the Serbian genocide in Srebrenica, Member of Parliament Alicia Kearns, who is also the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the British Government was informed by KFOR that these weapons arrive in ambulances from Serbia.

Asked by KFOR about this issue, the NATO mission has said that the claims are related to the time when the Royal British Battalion was engaged in the north of Kosovo in support of KFOR, in 2022.

"The illegal presence of weapons was reported to the KFOR offices, but after additional investigations to confirm this, no evidence of what was reported came out. There is no evidence either of the alleged smuggling carried out across the administrative border line between Kosovo and Serbia in Orthodox churches in ambulances. For complete information, this type of activity belongs to the rule of law, which is under the responsibility of Kosovo's security organizations", says KFOR's response on Wednesday morning.