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Kosovo leader marks anniversary with Serbia warning
Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:24am EST
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By Shaban Buza
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Thousands of Kosovo Albanians celebrated the first anniversary of their declaration of independence on Tuesday despite a warning from President Fatmir Sejdiu that Serbia still opposed its former province's secession.
"Serbia is continuing its interference and has the tendency to destabilize us," President Fatmir Sejdiu said in an address to parliament.
Kosovo, the smallest Balkan nation, seceded from Serbia in 2008, nine years after the end of a 1998-1999 war between Belgrade's security forces and ethnic Albanian guerrillas.
Sejdiu said "the mentality of the conflict and hate is still present in the heads and institutions in Serbia."
"These destabilizing policies of Belgrade do not help Serbs or the region," he said.
Eighty deputies from the 250-seat Serbian parliament, including the heads of every parliamentary group, announced on Tuesday they would hold a session in the Serb-held part of the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica.
Ethnic violence flared up there in December and January, and police have increased their presence in Mitrovica.
Streets in the center of Pristina were closed as hundreds of thousands prepared to party. Some restaurants offered free champagne.
"Despite its latest moves, Serbia has no impact on Kosovo and there is no way back," says Gezim Pula as he purchased a blue-and-yellow Kosovo flag.
Serbia and its huge ally Russia remain opposed to Kosovo independence although it has been recognized by the United States and its key European allies.
On Monday, Serbia's President Boris Tadic told Reuters his country would never recognize Kosovo. "Serbia will never take a single action that implies Kosovo's independence," he said.
The U.N. General Assembly has approved Serbia's request to ask the International Court of Justice whether Kosovo's secession is legal. The court in The Hague is expected to take one to two years to issue its opinion.
Kosovo's military conflict with Serbia ended in 1999 after NATO's 78-day bombing campaign forced Serb troops out of the then southern province. In the following years, Kosovo was an international protectorate patrolled by NATO peacekeepers.
Over the past year, the two million-strong republic, of whom 90-percent are ethnic Albanians, has established many trappings of a state, including a new constitution, an army, national anthem, flag, passports, identity cards and intelligence agency.
(Additional reporting by Branislav Krstic, Writing by Fatos Bytyci, editing by Adam Tanner)
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