Kosovo rebel army veterans threaten to oppose UN plan by force of arms - daily
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - November 15, 2008, Saturday

Text of report by Kosovo Albanian privately-owned newspaper Koha Ditore on 13 November

[Report by Besnik Krasniqi: "UN's Six Points Induce War in Kosovo"]

Pristina -- The associations that have emerged from the war threatened on 12 November that they would consider the years after the war just another period of ceasefire and that they would take up arms in the event Kosovo's statehood is questioned or circumstances are created for the partition of the Republic of Kosovo.

Their reaction came when, without approval from official Pristina, the United Nations and Serbia agreed on implementing in Kosovo a six-point plan for the reconfiguration of UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo], which also implied that EULEX [EU Rule of Law Mission] would also be neutral with regard to Kosovo's status and that it would act in accordance with Resolution 1244.

"Kosovo's institutions must react forcefully and must keep in constant touch with the international factor in order to prevent that from happening. But if it does happen, we will react... When something is won by war, there must be another war for it to be taken away," said Xhavit Jashari, the representative of the associations that have emerged from the former Kosovo Liberation Army [UCK in Albanian, KLA in English], at a news conference.

"In the event a partitioning of Kosovo, our ancestral land, takes place, we will consider the years after the war just another ceasefire."

The six-point plan presented on 11 November by the five powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy) has been rejected by Pristina, which argued that, through it, the internal functioning of the state of Kosovo would be affected, because it contains elements that imply an intervention in the internal constitutional structure of the Republic of Kosovo. Kosovo's president, Assembly Speaker, prime minister, and political parties have opposed this plan, which implies that the European Mission to Kosovo should not implement President Ahtisaari's Plan, the Constitution, and the law of the Republic of Kosovo.

The heads of the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo are determined to reject essential parts of the six-point plan, which Pristina believes will affect Kosovo's territorial integrity.

"The organizations that have emerged from the war back the institutions' stance on the six points that have come from the UN and stand for EULEX to be extended across Kosovo's territory," Jashari said.

He views the institution heads' current reaction as a good omen, although he objects to the policy they have been following so far with regard to Kosovo's status.

"The Albanian side cannot agree to negotiate what it has won by war. We have also opposed Ahtisaari's plan and the concessions the Albanian side made to it. However, we back it in its opposition to the UN six-point plan, because Kosovo must be a sovereign state," Jashari said.

"That can be achieved only in unity, because today's Kosovo is a sovereign and independent, though multiethnic, state," Jashari concluded.

Source: Koha Ditore, Pristina, in Albanian 13 Nov 08, p6
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