KOSOVO PARTY WANTS ASSEMBLY TO PUT ALBANIA-KOSOVO UNION ON AGENDA
BBC Monitoring International Reports - January 25, 2005

Text of unattributed report: "LPK wants to reactivate Albania-Kosovo union project" by Kosovo Albanian newspaper Koha Ditore on 24 January

Prishtina (Pristina), 23 January: At a meeting on Saturday (22 January), the general council of the People's Movement of Kosova (Kosovo) (LPK) requested that the project of an Albania-Kosova union, which was launched last year, be reactivated. According to a press release issued by the LPK public information office, the LPK council discussed the situation in Kosova after the last election, as well as the developments in Macedonia and the region.

"The election in Kosova saw serious efforts by Serbia to take advantage and to impose the Serbian plan for decentralization. Serbia and the Serb politicians in Kosova openly reconfirmed that they oppose the political processes in Kosova, and, as a consequence, the Serb community now has only the 10 seats in the Kosova Assembly that were reserved for them," was one of the LPK conclusions presented at the meeting by the movement's leader Emrush Xhemajli.

At the meeting it also said that the LPK would continue to refuse to cooperate with the LDK (Democratic League of Kosovo) as long as Ibrahim Rugova remains its chairman. According to the press release, the fact that the LPK has won only one mandate in the Kosova Assembly, despite a slight increase in the votes, was not considered a success by the party presidency.

Participants in the meeting decided unanimously to launch concrete action on reactivating the Albania-Kosova union project. They authorized the only deputy from this party in the Kosova Assembly to insist on including this proposal on the agenda.
 

Source: Koha Ditore, Pristina, in Albanian 24 Jan 05 p 4

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