The NATO chief secretary general, Mr George Robertson, visiting Kosovo yesterday one year after the alliance began a 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, acknowledged that genuine peace was still a long way off.

Mr Robertson was speaking after he and Supreme Allied Commander Gen Wesley Clark, arrived five hours late amid heavy security in Pristina, having scrapped cancelled a trip to the province's most dangerous flashpoint, Mitrovica. They had been due to visit the town, bitterly divided between ethnic Albanian and Serbian communities, to mark the first anniversary of the start of the air war against Yugoslavia.