Pristina, Kosovo
U.N. officials in Kosovo said this week that while a few officers assigned to the U.N. mission there were corrupt, most were honest and hardworking. Last month, three Pakistani officers working for the U.N. police were arrested on suspicion of working for a “human trafficking” ring that smuggled people across the border. Kosovo’s prime minister, Bajram Kosumi, said the incident was just another example of the complete “failure” of the U.N. to police the province effectively. But U.N. envoy Soren Jessen-Petersen said that trying to keep order in the Albanian-dominated province that broke from Serbia in 1999 was a difficult job. “You will always have rotten apples,” he said. “We are trying very hard to clamp down on any misbehavior.”
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