Serbs in Kosovo call for Russian weapons
Published 17 March, 2008, 07:37
It’s exactly one month since Kosovo’s unilateral independence announcement. While many international journalists have lost interest, Serb protesters in Kosovo are still pledging to fight the move.
Dr Marko Jaksic, the President of the Serbian municipalities of Kosovo, says the protests will continue.
“The Serb elections are on May 11. If Tomislav Nikolic wins it will be much easier to keep Kosovo in Serbia. We need Russia but we don’t ask for Russian soldiers. We need Russian weapons. If we'd had the weapons in 1999 the situation today would be completely different,” he explained.
Relations between Serbia and the UN are at an all time low. For the first time in nine years Serbia sent trains from Belgrade to Kosovo, ignoring an agreement with the UN. They say it mirrors the UN ignoring the agreement over the sovereignty of Kosovo.
And even on the Albanian side, a month after declaring independence, people's patience is running out.
“Citizens are depressed, there is poverty, unemployment. We hope to return perspectives in Mitrovica because in the past it was one of the developed city in Kosovo,” Bajram Rexhepi, former prime minister of Kosovo and mayor of Mitrovica, said.
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