Romania’s Deployment Of Troops, Observers In Kosovo Needs Parliament Vote – Opp Leader

Romania’s leftist opposition social democrat leader Mircea Geoana told a news conference Sunday that Romania’s decision to deploy NATO troops and observers to Serbia’s breakaway region of Kosovo should be made based on a vote in parliament.

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"If the ground for the recognition of Kosovo province as an independent state is real, then our presence there has no legal grounds. Romania’s decision to send NATO troops and observers there should be based on a vote from parliament. The issue is sensitive and has consequences beyond Romanian borders," said Geoana, a former foreign affairs minister.

Romania’s supreme defense council in January in Kosovo of 175 police officers and security forces.

On Friday, the council analyzed “evolutions regarding Kosovo", the president’s office said in a press release. Before the defense council meeting, Romania’s President Traian Basescu met with General Henri Bentégeat, chairman of the European union Military Committee.

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