Kosovo
Serbs urge Serbian government to end talks with UN over murders
SRNA - February 23, 2004
Gracanica, 23 February: About 1,000 Serbs who were protesting against the murder
of Zlatomir Kostic and Milijana Markovic, in Gracanica today demanded that the
authorities in Serbia end talks with UNMIK UN Mission in Kosovo until they
receive firm guarantees that Kosovo-Metohija would remain a sovereign part of
the state union of Serbia-Montenegro.
Serbs demanded that a ministry for Kosovo-Metohija be set up within the Serbian
government urgently and that the Serbian Assembly put on its agenda the issue of
Kosovo as soon as the new government was formed.
The protesters demanded that Kfor Kosovo Force Commander Holger Kammerhof and
the international police Commissioner Stefan Feller resign.
They also demanded that all checkpoints that had been removed be reinstated,
that light be shed on the fate of abducted and missing Serbs, that an end be put
to the transfer of power to Kosovo institutions, that the deputies of the Return
coalition leave the Kosovo Assembly and that Serbs working for Kosovo
institutions leave their jobs.
A member of the Return coalition, Rada Trajkovic, told the protest meeting that
Serbs knew that Zlatomir Kostic and Milijana Markovic were killed in Staro
Gracko by three Albanians from Stimlje.
The protest passed without incidents. A large number of policemen from the
international and Kosovo police forces were present.
SOURCE: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1227 gmt 23 Feb 04
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