UN does not rule out a non-European replacement for Petersen. According to Petersen, there won't be a vacuum in his position and that UN has already been searching for his replacement. The new UNMIK head will arrive two weeks after his departure.
We are advanced on the discussions we have have with New York and they know exactly what kind of cadre we need, and we believe it's a matter of days. There won't be a vacuum in Kosovo."
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During the Vetevendosje protests last week 80 people were arrested. 50 of them remain in jail. They were sentended to 10 days in jail for resisting arrest and blocking traffic. 
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
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good pictures - maybe you could explain a little more concerning what the protests were about.
Well, they want self-determination. They believe that negotiations will lead to the partition of Kosova. There is deep apprehension about the negotiations going on with Serbia. It doesn't help that Albanian negotiators keep quite because they are being asked to give up more than the people of Kosova can stomach.
They also claim that UNMIK is corrupted and is not helpful to the situation. They see it as a hindrance to independence, which according to them Albanians earned with blood.
They have a catch-all strategy of discontents. And they have plenty of good arguments to back themselves up.
Check out their page http://www.vetevendosje.org/sh/index.php?lang=en
Hmm what are Albanian negotiators being asked to give up exactly and by whom?
It seems to me that Kosovo Albanian are very much in the driving seat in the talks and will gain independence. I thought this was the primary and almost only issue.
What is their view on say Bujanovac and other similar towns in Serbia proper?
You know there is something quite revolutionary Titoist / Stalinist about this movement. And not the Tito from 1974 but the Tito before then in terms of his revolutionary and hardline views, not on Yugoslav national issues.
Sometimes they might make a good point (after all if they dont look corrupt as others do) but they look very extreme as well.
My view on boycotting Serbian goods is that its simply ridiculous playing into the hands of ethnic hatred. This kind of intolerance I saw in Serbia in 1990 with the boycott of Slovenian goods.
More municipalities. It looks like they've already done so, but they are keeping the decision hidden from public. One of the newspapers published the letter where Albanian negotiatiors offer more to the Serbian part.
On Vetevendosje. They are not a compact group. Not everbody that was at the protest on June 8 is a revolutionary. There were mothers of the missing there too. But as far as Albin's close group is concerned, I would say he is inspired more by the same philosopher-idealists that give rise to Sorbonne riot, for example.
I have supported the boycott. There is a lot of anger and dissatisfaction - I would rather take a boycott of Serb goods than another riot with Serbs as the ultimate victims. They make a very good point. Are we supposed to build the burned out homes with building material imported from the perpetrator, while still at the grips of the same?
On Presheva Valley. Only Veton Surroi has suggested linking the rights of Serbs in Kosova to that of Albanians in Southern Serbia. As you know, he is the least radical of the big players in Kosovar politics. I'm not sure that the others hava a public position on the issue.
Thank you for reading.
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