Radical Albanian group protests elections

Albin Kurti's Self-Determination movement staged a demonstration in Priština yesterday to protest the holding of Serbian elections in Kosovo.

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Saturday, 10.05.2008.

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Albin Kurti's Self-Determination movement staged a demonstration in Pristina yesterday to protest the holding of Serbian elections in Kosovo. Several hundred of his supporters, who engaged in violent demonstrations in the past that ended with fatalities, threw bags of garbage at the seats of UNMIK and Kosovo government. Radical Albanian group protests elections "UNMIK serves as dumpster," said Kurti, who is on house arrest pending trial over the deadly Feb. 2007 protests in Pristina, as his activists carried Albanian flags and anti-UNMIK and Kosovo institutions slogans. Kurti said that both the UN mission and the government of Kosovo should have prevented the parliamentary and local elections Belgrade is organizing tomorrow, as they "question the integrity of Kosovo". "The Serbian structures in Kosovo have for the past nine years controlled one fourth of the territory. Now these structures will be made official through the May 11 voting inside the republic of Kosovo. After May 11 there will be 23 parallel municipal presidents in Kosovo," Kurti said. But he added the protest Friday was "not against the international community" – rather, Kurti said, the international community should not rule Kosovo, "but should instead have an advisory role". UNMIK chief Joachim Ruecker yesterday announced that the parliamentary and local votes in the province are "unacceptable, contrary to Resolution 1244, with the goal of creating parallel, illegal and illegitimate structures of Serbia in Kosovo". The protest in Pristina Friday (Beta)

Radical Albanian group protests elections

"UNMIK serves as dumpster," said Kurti, who is on house arrest pending trial over the deadly Feb. 2007 protests in Priština, as his activists carried Albanian flags and anti-UNMIK and Kosovo institutions slogans.

Kurti said that both the UN mission and the government of Kosovo should have prevented the parliamentary and local elections Belgrade is organizing tomorrow, as they "question the integrity of Kosovo".

"The Serbian structures in Kosovo have for the past nine years controlled one fourth of the territory. Now these structures will be made official through the May 11 voting inside the republic of Kosovo. After May 11 there will be 23 parallel municipal presidents in Kosovo," Kurti said.

But he added the protest Friday was "not against the international community" – rather, Kurti said, the international community should not rule Kosovo, "but should instead have an advisory role".

UNMIK chief Joachim Ruecker yesterday announced that the parliamentary and local votes in the province are "unacceptable, contrary to Resolution 1244, with the goal of creating parallel, illegal and illegitimate structures of Serbia in Kosovo".

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