Extra Albanian, U.S., EU flags wanted in south
Ethnic Albanians from Serbia's southern regions intend to celebrate Kosovo's unilateral secession today.
Sunday, 17.02.2008.
12:48
Ethnic Albanians from Serbia's southern regions intend to celebrate Kosovo's unilateral secession today. The presidency of the Albanian local assembly members in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja has however called for "restraint". Extra Albanian, U.S., EU flags wanted in south But local Albanians say the celebrations will be "particularly spectacular" in the large, ethnically pure Albanian villages along the administrative line with Kosovo. For this reason, Albanian, U.S., and EU flags were in great demand in the area in the past days, reports say. A delegation of Albanian political leaders from the Presevo Valley municipalities was in Pristina Saturday, where they meet the province's president, Fatmir Sejdiu. A statement after the meeting said Sejdiu advised them to "solve their problems and needs within the institutions of Serbia." When they returned to Presevo, the Albanian leaders held a four-hour closed door meeting. From it, they sent a message to their compatriots "not to fall for provocations and not to make a single gesture that could lead to destabilization". But most of the local Albanian officials, and several hundred citizens, have yesterday and today left for Pristina and Gnjilane, expecting Kosovo Albanians' unilateral declaration of independence today. The region along the administrative line with Kosovo is patrolled by the Serbian Army, VS, and MUP's Gendarmerie on one, and KFOR on the other side. After the 1999 war, NATO made the area, known as the Ground Safety Zone, off-bounds to the Serbian forces. But after an armed Albanian gang, the so-called Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, UCPMB – an offshoot of the KLA – made the buffer zone their base for attacking Serbian policemen and civilians in the Valley, but also international officials in Kosovo, the army and MUP were asked to move back in. An internationally brokered peace deal in 2001 disarmed the UCPMB, and established a series of trust building measures. But analysts believe that the area remains volatile and heavily influenced by the Kosovo situation.
Extra Albanian, U.S., EU flags wanted in south
But local Albanians say the celebrations will be "particularly spectacular" in the large, ethnically pure Albanian villages along the administrative line with Kosovo.For this reason, Albanian, U.S., and EU flags were in great demand in the area in the past days, reports say.
A delegation of Albanian political leaders from the Preševo Valley municipalities was in Priština Saturday, where they meet the province's president, Fatmir Sejdiu.
A statement after the meeting said Sejdiu advised them to "solve their problems and needs within the institutions of Serbia."
When they returned to Preševo, the Albanian leaders held a four-hour closed door meeting. From it, they sent a message to their compatriots "not to fall for provocations and not to make a single gesture that could lead to destabilization".
But most of the local Albanian officials, and several hundred citizens, have yesterday and today left for Priština and Gnjilane, expecting Kosovo Albanians' unilateral declaration of independence today.
The region along the administrative line with Kosovo is patrolled by the Serbian Army, VS, and MUP's Gendarmerie on one, and KFOR on the other side.
After the 1999 war, NATO made the area, known as the Ground Safety Zone, off-bounds to the Serbian forces.
But after an armed Albanian gang, the so-called Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac, UCPMB – an offshoot of the KLA – made the buffer zone their base for attacking Serbian policemen and civilians in the Valley, but also international officials in Kosovo, the army and MUP were asked to move back in.
An internationally brokered peace deal in 2001 disarmed the UCPMB, and established a series of trust building measures. But analysts believe that the area remains volatile and heavily influenced by the Kosovo situation.
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