Zu Guttenberg Visits Kosovo And Bosnia And Herzegovina

PRISTINA, SERBIA - MARCH 29: German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (L) speaks next to Kosovan President Fatmir Sejdiu in front of a Kosovan relief during a press conference on March 29, 2010 in Pristina, Serbia. Zu Guttenberg is on a two-day troop visit on the Balkans. With his first journey to the region since the taking office he will inform in Kosovo and in Bosnia about the work of the German peacekeeping forces. In Kosovo supervises the German Federal Armed Forces since June 1999 as part of the NATO troop KFOR the stabilization of the earlier Serbian province, which explained in the meantime its independence. At present there 1500 German soldiers are stationed, whose task is since the departure of the Serbs among other things the protection of the ethnic minorities. (Photo by Georg Hilgemann-Pool/Getty Images)