Serbian entity in Kosovo?

22 February 2007 | 09:34 -> 15:46 | Source: B92, Beta 
VIENNA -- Belgrade negotiating team proposed creation of Serbian entity in Kosovo, Albanians say no.

Belgrade team member Dušan Bataković said that the Albanians “harshly reacted to Belgrade’s suggestion that involved the creation of a separate Serbian entity in Kosovo”.

Priština team leader Venton Surroi told the press that what Belgrade suggested was utterly unacceptable.

“Kosovo Albanians had no say on the adoption of the Serbian Constitution and its content. Thus nothing from their Constitution can apply to Kosovo”, Surroi said.

The issues on the agenda for today’s discussion include constitutional provisions, rights of ethnic communities and the judiciary system. No headway made yesterday

No discussion on sovreignity of Serbia over Kosovo
Members of the Serbian negotiating team, Vienna Feb 21

Yesterday’s negotiations on the general principles of the UN Envoy’s status proposal remained deadlocked with vague prospects for a compromise. Belgrade repeatedly insisted on discussing the status issue.

“We’ve discussed Ahtisaari’s document page by page, but it was difficult to engage the Albanian side in the dialogue over the status issue. International mediators tried to motivate the Priština team, but it is too late now. We have been offered a document that contains legal formulations for a final plan, and we’ve responded by proposing amendments to the elements we oppose”, Belgrade team coordinator Slobodan Samardžić said.

Belgrade rejected all aspects of the plan that violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia.

On the other hand, the Albanian side claimed the integrity of Serbia was not the topic of discussion. “Serbian representatives presented proposals that opposed the essence of Ahtisaari’s draft plan. Serbia wants to administer Kosovo as if it were its autonomous province, which is the actual reason behind the conflict. The status of Kosovo was determined in 1999. The talks we’ve engaged in serve as a means to achieve the recognition of Kosovo in the United Nations”, Jakub Krasnici, Priština team member said.

However, Leon Kojen form the Belgrade team considers such a scenario unrealistic. “If what the Albanian side says was true, than the UN wouldn’t have initiated the process aimed at the determination of Kosovo’s final status”.

As far as the international mediators are concerned, Ahtisaari assured he would only consider a proposal agreed upon by both negotiating sides.

Serbia will not accept an independent Kosovo-Metohija

SVienna, Feb 21, 2007 – Coordinator in the state team for negotiations on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija Leon Kojen said this evening that there are huge differences in the positions of Belgrade, the position taken in the proposal by UN Special Envoy Marti Ahtisaari, and the position of the ethnic-Albanian delegation, on the issue of the future status of Kosovo-Metohija.

 Leon Kojen, left, and Slobodan Samardzic at today's press conference in Vienna
 Photo: Fonet

Speaking at a press conference following the first day of the new round of negotiations in Vienna on the status of Kosovo-Metohija, Kojen reiterated that Ahtisaari’s proposal is unacceptable for Serbia when it comes to the basic question, and that is independent status for Kosovo-Metohija, and it is clear that the proposal is built upon the idea of independence for the province, even though that term has not been used.

According to Kojen, Belgrade is offering Kosovo substantial autonomy within Serbia and cannot accept any kind of independence and due to that reason the Belgrade delegation today rejected all terms of Ahtisaari’s document which are connected to independence in any form.

In the upcoming days when the annexes will be discussed, the Serbian side will present its view of the issue, said Kojen, and explained that the Serbian side will explain the concept of substantial autonomy tomorrow in amendments to Annex 1.

Kojen said that the Serbian negotiating team has the impression that Pristina thinks that the question of the status was settled back in 1999, which they reiterated today.

That is completely unrealistic, because in that case the international community would not even have begun the process of solving the status issue, stressed Kojen. He conveyed Ahtisaari’s statement that he is listening to the two delegations attentively, and encourages further contact between Belgrade and Pristina, and would be pleased if agreement is reached on some questions.

Kojen expressed the conviction that when debate on the status issue reaches the UN Security Council, Russia and China will support Serbia.

Russia has given support to Serbia because the two countries have the same stand regarding the issue of safeguarding territorial integrity and sovereignty of a country and respect of international law, explained Kojen. He added that there is no reason to believe that Russia will change her stand.

He said that he does not believe that Pristina’s expectation that a Security Council decision to give independence to Kosovo-Metohija will be fulfilled.

The second coordinator of the state negotiating team Slobodan Samardzic reiterated that Belgrade always insisted on holding negotiations on status, adding that only one session was held on this issue, on July 24 last year.

There were no talks on this, the most important issue, Samardzic said and underlined that it was Ahtisaari's task and that of this team to encourage talks on this issue.

He said that the UN envoy tried to organise negotiations on the status question today, but now it is too late for that because Belgrade and Pristina received a document that has legal formulations.

Soon this issue will be placed before a competent body, and that is the UN Security Council and we will see how the thing will go there, Samardzic said and added that Ahtisaari's mandate is not to make final documents, but to give a proposal.

Samardzic said that it is unacceptable that this proposal has not been discussed at all and that the main part of the document has not been examined earlier, but only the annexes.

According to him, one year after the beginning of negotiations, negotiators had an opportunity today in Vienna to talk about the status again. Belgrade did not offer a new position, but amendments to the Serbian platform.

Member of the negotiating team Marko Jaksic disputed Ahtisaari's document in the part referring to status. He explained that not even the NATO and KFOR troops did manage to save Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and therefore, there is a question what will happen to Serbs in a creation made by ethnic cleansing and violence.

We believe that ethnic violence that has been taking place in the past eight years cannot be a recommendation for Albanians to get a new state in the Balkans, Jaksic stressed.

He warned that the acceptance of Ahtisaari's proposal would first of all be an award and definitely a message to all separatist movements in the world that goals can be achieved through violence, expulsion and ethnic cleansing, and underlined that an independent Kosovo-Metohija is incompatible with the survival of Serbs in the province.

Serbian team rejects all provisions of Ahtisaari's proposal contradicting Serbia's integrity, sovereignty

Source: Serbian Government

Belgrade/Vienna, Feb 21, 2007 – At the onset of a new round of talks on Kosovo-Metohija's future status taking place in Vienna, the Serbian state negotiating team rejected today all provisions of UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari's proposal for Kosovo status settlement which contradict Serbia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.

The negotiating team said in a statement that the team coordinators Slobodan Samardzic and Leon Kojen stressed in an opening statement that only a solution resulting from talks, without artificially imposed deadlines, may lead to a proper agreement and regional stability in the Balkans.

Kojen and Samardzic once again emphasised firm dedication to the search for sustainable compromise and a peaceful solution of the Serbian-Albanian conflict which is the key issue influencing the overall politics and stability in the region.

They also welcomed the possibility UNOSEC offered to the Serbian team in the sense of taking part in consultations on Ahtisaari's proposal, adding that the Serbian team does indeed wish to actively and constructively participate in it.

The statement stresses that the Serbian team will present Serbia's position regarding all aspects of Ahtisaari's plan and especially regarding the main body of the text on general principles which contains ideas and resolutions on which there has not been any discussion previously, or which have not been looked at during the status resolution process.

During today's talks in Vienna, the Serbian delegation rejected all provisions of Ahtisaari's proposal which are not in line with Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity and presented alternative solutions based on the idea of internationally guaranteed substantial autonomy of Kosovo-Metohija within Serbia, the statement adds.

Serbia advocates high degree of autonomy for Kosovo-Metohija within Serbia

Serbian Government

Belgrade, Feb 21, 2007 – Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica after meeting with Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov expressed concern because of incredible animosity that UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari is showing to the very idea of a compromise in finding a solution to the Kosovo-Metohija status issue.

Prime Minister Kostunica with Bulgarian President Grorgy Parvanov

In a joint press conference, Kostunica said that he is concerned over the fact that Martti Ahtisaari on several occasions expressed a scornful attitude to the very possibility of reaching a compromise.

He stated that he was assured that Ahtisaari thinks that a compromise is not possible and that only an imposed solution for Kosovo is an option.

The Prime Minister pointed out that a sustainable solution for the future status of the province must be found through negotiations that lead to a compromise and added that a compromise can be easily reached if we stay true to principles of international law, the UN Charter and UN Security Council’s Resolution 1244.

At the same time, Kostunica said that the Serbian negotiating team is well prepared to respond with arguments and in detail to Ahtisaari’s proposal on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija and recalled that both the UN Charter and UN Security Council’s Resolution 1244 guarantee territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia.

He reiterated that Serbia advocates a high degree of autonomy for Kosovo-Metohija within Serbia as well as respect of the UN Charter and UN Security Council’s Resolution 1244.

Kostunica also pointed to failure to meet standards in the province as far as respect of human rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians are concerned. He also mentioned the drastic cases of violence and terrorist acts.
 
The Prime Minister also discussed with the Bulgarian President the construction of the Sofia-Nis highway and the opening of new border crossings.

He also said that Serbia values Bulgaria’s stand on Kosovo in previous years and expressed satisfaction with good relations between the two countries.

Parvanov said that Ahtisaari’s proposal is good basis for negotiations and that Belgrade and Pristina should show a constructive attitude to the Vienna talks.

Parvanov, who is on his first visit to Serbia upon taking office as Bulgarian president last year, also pointed out that Bulgaria, being an EU member, will support continuation of Serbia’s negotiation process on Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) as well as Serbia’s fulfilment of EU’s requirements.

According to him, Bulgaria wants to back Serbia in its European integration. Parvanov said that the Bulgarian side wants to develop good neighbourly relations, which is also proven by his visit today.

The Bulgarian President stressed that Bulgarian businesspeople are interested in investing in Serbia and specified the energy sector as one field of potential cooperation.

INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS:

Discussions start in Vienna on all aspects of the Comprehensive draft proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement

UNOSEK/PR/17
Wednesday, February 21,  2007

Vienna – Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari today started consultations with the delegations from Belgrade and Pristina on all aspects of the draft Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement, which was presented to the parties in Belgrade and Pristina on 2 February.

During the press conference, the Special Envoy stated that his draft proposal reflects the intensive negotiations by UNOSEK over the past twelve months. He reminded the media of the fact that in the course of the process, UNOSEK has held 15 rounds of direct talks between the parties, and UNOSEK experts have visited Belgrade and Pristina on 26 missions.

The Special Envoy said that his proposal tries to “create a society which is more sustainable than the present Kosovo is and to give a better future for all in Kosovo, particularly in the economic area.”

The Special Envoy also stated that “today, the parties have had a chance to express their views on every article of the general principles of the document”. He expressed “the hope that there are proposals that will meet the acceptance of both parties, so I have to seriously consider those to be included into my final proposal.”

The Special Envoy said that for the time being, it was impossible for him to estimate how this process would take.  “We intend to use this week and next week for this process, and then have a rounding-up meeting on 10 March”, he added. 

Press Conference by UN Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari, in Vienna

UNOSEK, 21 February 2007

Good day ladies and Gentlemen,

We have just had our first session with the parties, what we have done, we have opened the discussion on the general principles of the comprehensive plan and we have gone through the whole part of the document that leads to the general principles.

And both parties have had a chance to express their views on every article and we have gone through it so thoroughly that they have in the end of our exercise they have then provided me and my colleagues with written comments on the articles where they have wanted to have some changes introduced. My idea is after the lunch break to start going through some proposals, and I hope that in some areas there are proposals that might meet the acceptance of both parties, so I have to seriously reconsider those to be included into my final proposal.

Both parties have behaved in a proper manner like I would expect in this sort of consultative process. I would say this is a good beginning in our exercise. It also provides an additional opportunity for dialogue when we move to the afternoon. Both parties have now said whether they have something to say on a certain article and then in many cases they have come with a prepared position what they would like to see in particular articles.

I don’t think that the parties expect either - in all fairness to them - that what one party is putting on the table will be accepted by the other side. But I think it is important that both parties can say what they want to draw my attention too. So this has started well from my point of view and you will hear later on then how the things move from here, when we start to look at the annexes.

How long this process will take I think it is totally impossible for me to say at the moment. I volunteered to sit in the evenings and we have a few days where we have not scheduled so programme next year, next week sorry  - I am coming to the age of 70 this summer so bare with me.

At the end of this week we will know better how to organise our work for the coming week. The tentative work plan is there. We intend to use this week and next week for this process and then have a sort of rounding up meeting on the 10th of March and I hope I can stick to my work plan.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Questions/Answers

EL Pais:  You said a few days ago in Brussels that you did not expect miracle. Now you are saying that the things have started well. Are you more optimistic?

Martti Ahtisaari: I don’t think that I would like to change what I said in Brussels, because we have to make a difference between the actual status question and the other elements. Because if you look at the comprehensive plan which is now on the table you may say that 2/3rds or 3/5ths of this plan are catering for the non-Albanian communities and their lives in Kosovo after the status has been decided.

So, on those areas, when we move to that more closely and look at the annexes there, we might be able to improve some of the text that we have, or be more precise rather. But on the Status issue my position hasn’t changed: nothing has indicated that on the Status issues parties would be moving in a different direction from where they have.

I am sure you have followed closely - and you have written as well - much about what has happened in the last couple of months:  new constitution in Serbian, the terms of the negotiating team coming from the [Serbian] Parliament and so on, and on the other hand statements emerging from Kosovo.

So we are dealing with the same reality, both you and I, we are analyzing that and I don’t see any reason to change what I said in Brussels.

 BBC Albania:  Sir, baring in mind that both sides are very far apart and there seems that there is no way to keep them together, what is the next step then? What are you going to do?

Martti Ahtisaari: As I already said, there are very important elements in this comprehensive plan because it tries to create a society which is more sustainable than the present Kosovo is and gives a better future for all in Kosovo, particularly in the economic area.  When I heard again this morning that unemployment [in Kosovo] is perhaps 60% or more, then we realise where the priorities lie. So it is always worthwhile to sit here and try to see can we improve?  Some of the articles in the document and whether both parties can see that it is in the benefit of both.

Then we have a separate issue and that is the Status issue and that’s my task to make my recommendation for the Security Council because I have been entrusted by the Secretary-General to do that.  As I have explained on the 2nd in both Belgrade and Pristina when I visited the cities, this is my proposal, it is still a draft and after this consultative process is over I will finalize it and send it to the Secretary-General and the Security Council.

And that will start an entirely new process because the Security Council in the end is the international organ that will decide how the Status issue will be, finally decided. I can make my recommendation, its up to the Council then to make their decision

RTS:  Question on some remarks - Amnesty International was mentioned  - that the proposal actually brings a worse future for Kosovo? Won’t it bring instability in the Balkans?

Martti Ahtisaari: First of all, if somebody says that my proposal gives a worse future for Kosovo then they haven’t read or they don’t understand the language. It is as simple as that. I have to be absolutely categorical:  this is a very far-reaching improvement for the present situation and I think anyone who reads it properly and doesn’t want to put a spin without reading - because I saw some people reacting when definitely they have never had a chance to read the document - so I don’t keep too much attention to such sort of statements, and it’s a sad reflection to how some people actually react to such things.

I saw also the comments of Amnesty somebody had - one of you colleagues, I hope it wasn’t you - had read like a devil the Bible and I thought it was a very old statement which had nothing to do with my proposals and it was used in a manner, I think the closest comparison I have is, Devil reading the Bible.

So, if we would go to the headquarters in London for Amnesty - an organization I know very well - I don’t think that you would get that sort of statement. Because that would then prove that even Amnesty has not read the document, and I don’t believe that.

On the violence I think, no one should make any threats and we are not working on the basis of threats. But of course if there is an internal delay in this matters then the security situation becomes problematic. There is no question about that. I have already postponed my presentation of the plan for two months because of the elections [in Serbia] and I thought I was the right thing to do.

And, I very willingly accepted the request from the Serbian side for a delay from 13th till today, because the timeframe I had originally in mind I think facilitated that.

But we have to talk about regional security on broad terms and I would argue vehemently that the proposal even in the present form would increase the regional stability in the Balkans.

Question: (unidentified Italian media) yesterday at the OSCE you said that you are ready to consider constructive amendments in order to reach agreements on Kosovo. Where are you on this?
And: Do you have a plan to hold a meeting with Ban-Ki moon in Vienna ?

Martti Ahtisaari: I tried to be very clear in what I said yesterday at the Permanent Council in OSCE - and I said more or less the same thing when I spoke last week on Friday to the North Atlantic Council of NATO and on Monday of the same week to the Foreign Ministers of the European Union - that this whole exercise is here to give the parties one more chance. This is not the starting of negotiations: we have been talking, we have had 15 rounds of talks in this city and we had at least 25 expert missions together with some of the International Organizations we have worked with. So this is a chance now, on the basis of my draft proposal, to see:  can any improvement be made, that the parties could possibly agree on? It’s a worthwhile effort.  I very much believe in it and I have approached this with an open mind, but at the same time, being realistic in the light of what I have heard and what I keep on hearing from the capitals at the moment.

Yes, I hope to see the Secretary-General. I was recently in New York - that was nearly two weeks ago - and I attended the senior planning committee meeting of the Secretary-General. And I can tell you that I am very pleased the support the new Secretary-General has given to me and my colleagues.

(Unidentified media):  Question on UN Security Council resolution 1244 and its respect in regard to the current proposal.

Martti Ahtisaari: I don’t want to start arguing about the resolution 1244; I think we all know what the resolution says. What happened was that the Secretary-General asked the Security Council the permission to move forward on the Status process.  [Resolution] 1244 never pre-destined a Status, so I think we have to be careful what we say about [Resolution] 1244. It only talked about the process:  what should be there.

(Japanese media) Question on position of the Russian Federation and the statements made by president Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov. How do you plan to convince Mm. Putin in Munich and Mr Lavrov not to use their veto in the Security Council? 

Martti Ahtisaari: First of all I think we have to move one step at a time. Before you can ask me what Russia - or any other country will decide who happens to be in the Security-Council at the moment - will decide when the plan finally goes their in the month of March.

Before that there is a lot of speculation. I wasn’t unfortunately in Munich, because I was elsewhere but I read very carefully the statements and I don’t think they were as categorical as you said.

President Putin, if I remember correctly said that - and I don’t want to become his spokesman either - said that Russia may find it difficult to support something if it is not based on the agreement. But everyone has to.  If we cannot see eye-to-eye among the parties on the Status issue the proposal has to be put to them for the Security-Council and then Russia and others - I haven’t asked the others either what their reaction when the Security Council discusses and the possible resolution how they will react on.

So let’s be patient. It is I think worthwhile to mention, nevertheless, that the Contact Group has been rather united. It even passed the resolution on the 2nd of September when I was in Pristina, I read that in a press conference and it urged both parties to try to engage constructively in this consultative process. So in the sense I would say that Russia has played a constructive role. I wouldn’t be surprised if they would have advised both parties very clearly, both Belgrade and Pristina, to be constructive in these meetings that we are having here.

(TV21): On whether you can give at least two main argument to assure us that the current situation will not lead to development in Kosovo like in the Eighties and Nineties

Martti Ahtisaari: Like in the 80’s and 90’s I think. First of all it goes without saying - and I think we have to look at the recent history also - how the Serb Orthodox Church has been treated in Kosovo.  I think it is important in today’s Europe that every Church will have the right to practice their religion. It is clearly said: there is no state religion in Kosovo.

And particularly in the light of the Kosovo history also, I think it is important that there is a protection and those privileges that we have spelled out.  I think I would have failed in my task and so would my colleagues if we wouldn’t have those provisions in there.

I recognise that it is not easy to create a multi-ethnic society in the light of what has gone wrong in a society. But everybody in Kosovo and elsewhere - this is not the only problem area I have dealt in my life. And they need special message, it’s not only the laws, I mean:  human beings have to come together again, but recognising each other in a totally different manner.

I went through, as you know in 2005, the peace process in Aceh in Indonesia and the message there was exactly the same:  You can have a framework in any agreement but then its up to the different communities. Their co-operation is needed. Nothing will work even in the best of circumstances if the different communities don’t stretch their hand and start dealing with each other in a more civilised manner than they have done. So there is a lot of work that needs to be done. I would say that even our proposal gives a beginning for something new and better that what is there at the moment.

(RTK) I understand from this morning’s session that the parties have agreed only that they disagree. If the afternoon session goes the same way, would you still stick to your agenda or maybe change it?

Martti Ahtisaari: I hope you don’t remind me - I sometimes tell this to my staff members, when I was a young man I was told, I think they were Swedish friends who told me if there is a discrepancy between plan and reality, plan will be applied. I hope that this is not the case. I think it’s very much worthwhile, how long time we really need that we will see. I don’t want to hold the parties here forever if we can finish our work and do what we were expected to do.

But that’s why we have given ample time to go through thoroughly this document and hear the views, so both parties know perfectly well where they stand and we will see on what areas actually they will see eye-to-eye.

But I think also that both parties are very realistic. They have been in this process since the beginning of last year. It is the same people more or less on both sides of the table. They know each other they have talked in number. To say that there hasn’t been any dialogue gives a misinterpretation of this process. There has been continuous dialogue on all these meetings that we have had and this is an additional opportunity.

Now, at least from my point of view I hope the parties feel that it’s worthwhile from their point of view as well and I am thankful that they have appeared here.

Thank you very much.

Hysa Announces War, If Independence Is Denied

Koha Ditore in Albanian, 21 Feb 07 Rome

"Any effort by the international community to deny Kosova independence will incite "A new war in the Balkans", said Kosovo negotiator Ylber Hysa, reported the American daily The Washington Times.

Before leaving for Vienna where the second round of negotiations will be held, Hysa said that Kosovars believe that they have now made a wide compromise. "This doesn’t leave us much room for maneuvers. The package includes a wide compromise in the Serbs’ favor…so if someone tries to buy time, I think no one is going to benefit. We would only loose the opportunity for a political solution", the newspaper quoted Hysa.

The Washington Times reads that some western diplomats speculated that a softened Ahtisaari plan will be approved at UN Security Council, which would reduce Kosova’s level of independence.

"This is the perfect scenario if you want to start another new war in the Balkans", Hysa said, who gave an interview for the American daily in Rome, where he was participating in the conference for Kosovo organized by the Italian Foreign Ministry.

Monday night's explosion near 'Dodona' theater shocked the residents of the oldest district of Pristina. From the early hours of Tuesday morning, the investigations have started. A resident of the district where the explosion happened testified: “We all were in our house. Immediately, a noise which shook the windows of the house was heard. We went out and but we did not see anything. We thought something was happening in the city. After a while we heard the police sirens, and when we went out to the road, we were told that an explosion has happened”.

Some of the streets were blocked on Monday night, but on Tuesday all of them were open excluding those of the crossroads where the explosion happened.

You could see that four vehicles were demolished, one of them being a civilian car. You could see that some of the house windows near the explosion scene were broken.

Regarding the explosion, the Kosovo Police Service spokesperson, Veton Elshani said: “On Monday night around 21:15 hrs, at 'Bajram Kelmendi' street near 'Dodona' theater, an explosion happened, where three United Nations vehicles and a civilian car were demolished”. It is not known what kind of the explosive device it was.

The police have been informed about a communiqué, which has been addressed to some of the media, where an organization called “UÇK” (KLA) takes responsibility for the explosion. But, the motives of this explosion are as yet unknown. Translated by Valmir Zeqiri

Kosovo LIBERATION ARMY
OPERATIVE HEADQUARTERS
PRISTINA

    
ANNOUNCEMENT No. 001

The Kosovo Liberation Army is reactivated today with its first action on 19/02/2007 in Pristina. These explosions, whose aftermath were the destruction of UNMIK vehicles since we did not want to cause any victims as UNMIK and the collaborationist government did, is a revenge for the death of two 'Self-Determination' movement protesters and the injury of more than 80 others during the February 10th protest in Pristina, which protest asked for an end of ideals and historical the aspirations of Kosovo people, what KLA was established and fought for.

Cheated by the treachery of their leaders, the KLA born from the bowels of the people was raised and will lead the war, which was left in the middle of its way, up to the end, for the unification of the Albanian people.

The KLA will remain a loyal guard to the ideals of its martyrs and will respond with severe force against any kind of violence which will violate the martyrs' heavenly ideals and against those who will violate the freedoms and rights of Albanian nation.
We, The Kosovo Liberation Army, will always be near our Albanian people to protect its interest at any cost.

The KLA will revenge any kind of injustice that is being made to the people.
Remember the given oath: Viva Ethnic Albania

THE COMMANDER OF OPERATIVE HEADQUARTERS
PETRIT PRISTINA
(This announcement is part of the above article published in Kosovo Sot).  

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Epoka e Re in Albanian, 21 Feb 07 Pristina

Announcement No. 002

The Kosova Liberation Army calls on all the Albanian people in Kosova to stay away from cooperating with UNMIK authorities along with KPS collaborators; it is them who dyed their hands with Albanian blood only to force the people to become the prey of unfavorable solutions.
 
Just like in the past when “Titoists” would accuse the people for what was happening in Kosova, and also now the political leaders in Kosova blame the people.
 
Those political leaders that claim to have led the 1998-1999 liberation war for the dignity and identity of the entire nation, in whom people had faith, do not realize that they are in the wrong path pretending UCK is their property. We tell them that UCK is not Hashim Thaqi’s, Ramush Haradinaj’s, Jakup Krasniqi’s, Rrustem Mustafa’s, or Agim Çeku’s property.
 
These persons transformed UCK’s moral wealth into material wealth. It’s enough to see if you just take a look at their villas, the jeeps they ride on, and the infinite number of bodyguards.
 
The UCK will not allow any organism, be it local or international. The UCK will not allow any Veton Surroi (Golden Boys) type of individual to reappear with his theory for Kosovar fascism, by despising our people, but in fact he is miserable.

UCK will not allow these individuals to violate the rights of culture, the rights of principles, values, and our right for self-determination, to accomplish our oath we fought under. The UCK as sons of the Albanian nation will remain faithful to its historic aspirations. Long live the Albanian nation. Long live National Unification.
Commander of Operative Headquarters

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