Crown Prince visits Danish troops

Описание: (10 Nov 2003) QUALITY AS INCOMING



1. Danish military camp Olaf Rye
2. Danish military sign
3. Danish soldiers preparing for the visit of Danish Crown Prince Frederik
4. Danish soldiers standing guard
5. Top of sentry house
6. Arrival of military vehicles
7. Danish soldiers standing guard
8. Various of Crown Prince dressed in a Danish military uniform getting out of the van
9. Danish soldiers standing guard
10. Various of Crown Prince walking toward honour guards
11. Crown Prince saluting guards
12. Honour guards
13. Crown Prince walking around the camp
11. Various of Crown Prince greeting the Danish officers
12. Danish soldier

STORYLIN:

Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, heir to Europe's oldest monarchy, on Monday begun a two-day visit to the Danish troops stationed in Kosovo as part of the NATO-led (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) peacekeeping force.

The 35-year-old - dressed in military uniform - was welcomed by an honour guard at the Danish military camp Olaf Rye, just outside Kosovska Mitrovica, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Pristina.

Denmark's 450-man contingent serving with the NATO-led force, known as KFOR, includes some 100 soldiers from Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

Frederik, who is to marry Australian commoner Mary Donaldson next year, is a major in the army and air force, and a navy commander.

He also volunteered for the Danish Navy's elite Froemandskorpset.

Currently, he is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Strategy at the Royal Danish Defence College.

The KFOR force is made up of 20-thousand soldiers from 34 countries.

It was deployed in 1999 after NATO intervened to stop a crackdown by Serb forces on ethnic Albanians.

The Crown Prince is scheduled to stay with the troops till November 12.

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