Tadić warns about promoting terror

President Boris Tadic warned KFOR and UNMIK today that Albanian media in Kosovo may be promoting terror organizations. He was reacting to last night's broadcast by Kosovo's public television of an interview with a group the UN designated as terrorist. Tadic warns about promoting terror According to the president, the video constitutes for a new threat of violence and intimidation of the Serbs in the province. “It is also an attempt to affect the negotiating process over the future status of Kosovo.” “I believe that the ethnic Albanians do not wish to see the March 17, 2004 incidents repeat again,” Tadic said in a statement. During his recent visit to New York, Tadic informed foreign officials about the existence of armed terrorist groups in northern Macedonia. Kosovo's public broadcaster Wednesday aired "dramatic footage" of a terrorist group in the province, BIRN said earlier Thursday. RTK broadcast an interview with members of the Albanian National Army, ANA, an armed group branded as terrorists by the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK. According to RTK the footage was filmed near the Kosovo – Serbia proper administrative boundary, in the municipality of Podujevo. A group of masked armed men in black uniforms were shown patrolling one of Kosovo’s most important highways and checking vehicles that were passing by. ”Seeing the serious threat… that Serbia will again do an invasion in Kosovo, we decided to prepare and to open our eyes better”, one of the masked armed men told RTK. Beatrant Bornneau, spokesperson of NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, told RTK that they would react furiously "in case they would locate the ANA militia." “There’s no place for any more violence in Kosovo”, Bornneau was quoted. Members of the Albanian National Army, known also as AKSH, were seen in the territory periodically after the conflict ended in 1999. They have taken responsibility for several bombing incidents in Kosovo since then. Through press statements ANA has also threatened with attacks and all out war in Macedonia demanding unification of Albanians from Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. This is the first time that any ANA armed and uniformed members were filmed and broadcast in Kosovo.

Tadić warns about promoting terror

According to the president, the video constitutes for a new threat of violence and intimidation of the Serbs in the province.

“It is also an attempt to affect the negotiating process over the future status of Kosovo.”

“I believe that the ethnic Albanians do not wish to see the March 17, 2004 incidents repeat again,” Tadić said in a statement.

During his recent visit to New York, Tadić informed foreign officials about the existence of armed terrorist groups in northern Macedonia.

Kosovo's public broadcaster Wednesday aired "dramatic footage" of a terrorist group in the province, BIRN said earlier Thursday.

RTK broadcast an interview with members of the Albanian National Army, ANA, an armed group branded as terrorists by the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK.

According to RTK the footage was filmed near the Kosovo – Serbia proper administrative boundary, in the municipality of Podujevo.

A group of masked armed men in black uniforms were shown patrolling one of Kosovo’s most important highways and checking vehicles that were passing by.

”Seeing the serious threat… that Serbia will again do an invasion in Kosovo, we decided to prepare and to open our eyes better”, one of the masked armed men told RTK.

Beatrant Bornneau, spokesperson of NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, told RTK that they would react furiously "in case they would locate the ANA militia."

“There’s no place for any more violence in Kosovo”, Bornneau was quoted.

Members of the Albanian National Army, known also as AKSH, were seen in the territory periodically after the conflict ended in 1999. They have taken responsibility for several bombing incidents in Kosovo since then.

Through press statements ANA has also threatened with attacks and all out war in Macedonia demanding unification of Albanians from Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania.

This is the first time that any ANA armed and uniformed members were filmed and broadcast in Kosovo.