Sunday 29 June 2008

Kosovo Serbs launch new assembly


Serbs in Kosovo have inaugurated their own assembly set up in defiance of the puppet 'ethnic' Albanian government and the United Nations. The gathering was held in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica.

Forty five members were elected in May during Serbia's general and municipal elections. A ballot which the UN and Kosovo's illegitimate puppet government said was illegal. People from across Serbia converged on Mitrovica to show their support for the new assembly of Kosovo's Serbs.

Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu and parliament speaker Jakup Krasniqi signed Kosovo's constitution in Pristina on 15 June. Kosovo's new constitution grants broad autonomy to the native Serbs who are now a minority in their own land.

The opening session took place on St Vitus day, when Serbs remember their defeat by invading Ottoman forces in 1389, an event that lies at the core of the Serb claim to Kosovo.

The assembly was formed by nationalist Serb politicians in Kosovo and was set up to help coordination with the Serb authorities in Belgrade, officials said. Slobodan Samardzic, Serbia's minister for Kosovo, told delegates that the assembly would help Serbia fight to keep Kosovo. 90% of Kosovo's two million population are Albanian invaders. Northern Kosovo is still the preserve of about 50,000 native Serbs.

From 1999 to 2008 the province was administered by the UN, during a conflict fueled by ethnic division and repression of the indigenous Serbs.

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