Wounded Kosovo assembly member speaks

Petar Miletic says that it is hard for him to believe that he was shot because he belongs to a "different political option". Miletic is an official of a party called the Independent Liberals, which cooperates with the Kosovo Albanian government and is not embraced by the majority Serb population in Kosovo. Wounded Kosovo assembly member speaks Miletic was shot two days ago in northern Kosovska Mitrovica in front of his apartment building. Commenting on the incident, he said he did not believe that he had been wounded for participating in the work of the Kosovo assembly in Pristina. Miletic told Radio Free Europe that he had been aware that accepting the position in the Kosovo assembly was "risky" but that he "did not known that he was risking his life by doing so". He also stated that he did not have any official contacts with the representatives of the authorities in Belgrade but that he "privatelly cooperates with some of them whom he met while he was working as a journalist". The attack on Miletic occurred three days after the incident in the ethnically mixed Bosnjacka Mahala neighborhood of the divided town, when Mesud Dzekovic died in a hand grenade explosion, while 11 others were wounded. There have been no arrests in either case. The violence and tensions in the northern, predominantly Serb part of Kosovo prompted Belgrade to request an urgent session of the UN Security Council, which was held on Tuesday in New York.

Wounded Kosovo assembly member speaks

Miletić was shot two days ago in northern Kosovska Mitrovica in front of his apartment building. Commenting on the incident, he said he did not believe that he had been wounded for participating in the work of the Kosovo assembly in Priština.

Miletić told Radio Free Europe that he had been aware that accepting the position in the Kosovo assembly was "risky" but that he "did not known that he was risking his life by doing so".

He also stated that he did not have any official contacts with the representatives of the authorities in Belgrade but that he "privatelly cooperates with some of them whom he met while he was working as a journalist".

The attack on Miletić occurred three days after the incident in the ethnically mixed Bošnjačka Mahala neighborhood of the divided town, when Mesud Džeković died in a hand grenade explosion, while 11 others were wounded.

There have been no arrests in either case. The violence and tensions in the northern, predominantly Serb part of Kosovo prompted Belgrade to request an urgent session of the UN Security Council, which was held on Tuesday in New York.