Belgrade, September 6 - "The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo will soon form a Kosovo Protection Corps which will consist of Serbs exclusively and have its own symbols", UNMIK head Hans Haekkerup told Belgrade reporters in Pristina on Thursday.

KFOR Commander Lieutenant General Thorstein Skiaker, who is in charge of the Kosovo Protection Corps, later confirmed the statement.

However, both Haekkerup and Skiaker agreed that confidence building among different nations was the only way to assure lasting security in Kosovo.

According to Haekkerup and Skiaker, this can be accomplished by going to the polls and through active participation in political life.

Haekkerup observed that Serbs' will to go to the polls was linked with the security situation, the issue of missing persons and the process of return of IDPs, and admitted that neither UNMIK nor KFOR will be able to fully resolve these problems in the near future.

He added that the returnees had to be provided with employment, basic infrastructure facilities and other necessities of normal life.

Asked by reporters when Yugoslav forces would be deployed to locations in Kosovo as envisaged in UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Haekkerup said the timeframe of Yugoslav forces' return had not been covered by any decree, adding that their deployment would additionally complicate the security situation.

Haekkerup said the ICTY was being provided with information on war crimes committed against Serbs, adding there have been no sings from the Hague that ethnic Albanian military and political leaders Hashim Thaqi and Ramush Haradinaj would be indicted.