Prishtina, March 26, 2020 – The President of state, Hashim Thaçi, today visited the Kosovo Security Force, respectively the Medical Battalion, where he closely watched their work.
“It was a special pleasure for me to see such a high level of professional training of the Medical Battalion of the Kosovo Security Force. Once again to be convinced of the high professional, medical, and logistical capacities of the KSF, which are examples for the Western Balkans region. The KSF is ready to help the citizens of Kosovo, whenever required, in every part of the territory of the Republic of Kosovo. It is ready to assist all institutions dealing with the work, both in terms of prevention and overcoming the situation, after the outbreak of Coronavirus. Also, I would like to thank every soldier, officer, NCO, general who are maximally engaged in this new, burdensome but at the same time challenging and sacrificial circumstance, but with optimism, hope and confidence that we will overcome it with the smallest possible consequences ”, stated President Thaçi.
Whereas, the KSF Commander, Rrahman Rama, said that they have taken all measures and have raised the state of readiness of the Kosovo Security Force.
“We are fortunate to have none of our members infected. We are in touch with everyone. I can say, I hope and believe that we do not need to use these capacities, but we are on standby. Every need that is presented by the institutions, but also by the citizens, we are ready at any time, at any moment, to come to their help”, said Commander Rama.
President Thaçi said that after yesterday’s visit to the UCCK, today he has also seen the professionalism and the capacity of the preparation of the Kosovo Security Force.
“This increases even more the confidence, hope, optimism in me as the president of the country, that Kosovo will successfully overcome this challenge. As a state we have enough capacity to deal with the challenge of the Covid19 pandemic”, President Thaçi said.
He added that the health of the citizens is in the hands of professionals and we should all help the doctors and everyone who is facing the Covid19 virus by staying home.