(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-27 10:42

SOFIA - The Bulgarian government decided to send six servicemen from the Bulgarian Armed Forces with their personal weapons and equipment to participate in the operation of NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR), the government Information Service announced Wednesday.

The Bulgarian troops will join the newly established Military-Civil Cooperation unit at the KFOR Headquarters. Its tasks include providing consultations and support for the local security forces, as well as controlling over the disbandment of the Kosovo Protection Corps.

The participation of Bulgaria in the new structure is to contribute to securing conditions, under which local institutions have to guarantee the irreversibility of the process to establish a multiethnic and democratic Kosovo, it said.

Bulgaria agreed to officially recognize the independence of Kosovo last week.