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SERBIANNA (USA)
Kosovo negotiations to be marred by terrorism - expert
November 30, 2005 -- Status talks on the Serbian Kosovo province may
create new security problems in Serbia and most likely also a new wave
of violence by Albanian extremists against the Serb population, says
Zoran Dragisic, a Faculty of Civil Defense professor and the executive
director of the newly founded Center for Studying of Terrorism.
Albanian protesters spill paint beside a map of Kosovo
signifying blood that will flow if the province is not granted independence.
Speaking for the Bosnia based news agency SRNA, Dragisic said that the
internationals that are administering the province would be targeted
first.
Earlier in November a bomb exploded near the headquarters of the
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in
Pristina, a building that is also the administrative center of the
UN-run Serbian
province of Kosovo.
"The violence will not be restricted only to Kosovo - it will also
take place in southern Serbia which Albanians call Eastern Kosovo.
Albanians will launch terrorist operations if they are dissatisfied
with the Kosovo status negotiations. UNMIK representatives will be
their targets," Dragisic said.
According to Dragisic, the groups which will organize terrorist
operations are already in place.
"They are KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army, UCK in Albanian] members who
change their organization's name depending on the situation and the
terrain. The state has to respond in our part of the territory and
KFOR will fight them in Kosovo," Dragisic said.
Today, another ethnic Albanian organization, the 'The Eagles', have
appeared threatening armed conflict. Their commander, Baskim Skaba,
has sent a statement to Pristina based media about the Eagles claiming
that the
organization is made up of former Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA] members
in the zone of Nerodimlje near Urosevac. The Eagles oppose Kosovo
status talks because they may not guarantee independence, so The
Eagles are ready to fight.
Kosovo Police Service spokesman Refki Morina said that police have no
information about any reorganization of former KLA units for the
region of Nerodimlje. Morina said that the mentioned organizations
were illegal and
that police were ready to fight them decisively.
Recently, a plethora of armed Albanian groups have mushroomed
throughout the province under various acronyms. Earlier in November,
ethnic Albanian
National Movement for the Liberation of Kosova emerged with a
statement demanding unification of Kosovo with other "Albanian
territories" accusing the great powers of imposing a solution contrary
to their demands.
Serbian Interior Minister Jocic said that the situation was safe in
southern Serbia, but expressed concern that provocations were possible
in the period ahead.
Speaking at a press conference in Medvedja, southern Serbia, Jocic
said that provocations were possible throughout the entire status
talks and would be
directed at obstructing the negotiating process.
"Bearing in mind the overall situation, the security situation was
currently satisfactory," said Jocic adding that Albanian demands to
annex Presevo Valley to Kosovo are unrealistic.
November 30, 2005 06:18 AM (10:18 GMT)
Serbian News Network - SNN
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