Majko says Belgrade interested in radicalizing situation in Kosova
-Serb military acts stir up conflict aggravation-

      TIRANE, Jan 27 (ATA)-By E. Allushi,
      Recent Belgrade attitudes towards the Albanian population in Kosova show that it is
interested in radicalizing the situation in Kosova, SP Secretary General Pandeli Majko told
ATA on Tuesday.
      "The military acts of the Belgrade authorities, offer nothing but aggravation of conflict,"
said Majko.
      Kosova leader Rugova's statement to radio "Deutsche Welle", which says that "it is
possible for the Kosova Liberation Army (UaK) to be run by the Serb secret service,
aiming at military intervention in the region," is considered by Majko "a proper positioning
for the moments Kosova is being faced with".
      Rugova has asked the international community to deploy troops in Kosova, as a
guarantee to avoid a conflict outbreak there.
      "An intervention by the international forces in Kosova with the aim to extinguish
conflicts and resolve the Kosova issue in a peaceful way is absolutely fair," the SDP
secretary for Foreign Relations, Ingrid Shuli, told ATA.
      The RP spokesman, Neritan Alibali, told ATA that "we do not know what the UaK is",
stressing that his party is against using violence, as a means to resolve the problems.
      Alibali observed that the splits among the political forces of Kosova will cause "the
Kosova problems to take a long time to be resolved".
      Defending his formula on the solution to the question of Kosova through peaceful
resistance, Rugova has declared that "we should not be ruined through adventure." He
called on the international community to increase its presence in Kosova, proposing even
that Kosova be placed under an "international protectorate."
      Albanian politicians have described as Belgrade's "strategy" the recent escalation of
the Serbian violence towards Albanians of Kosova.
      "This strategy serves Serbia to keep the question of Kosova unsolved and to
discourage the political action of the Kosova leadership, which is gaining an international
support," was the stand of the Democratic Alliance Party Secretary General, Prez Zogaj.
      According to Zogaj, the escalation of the violence is a provocation with the aim of
radicalizing the Kosova approach.
      In the mean time, the Democratic Party sees in the military actions of the Serbian state
a dangerous operation which makes the situation extremely aggravated.
      Since January 22, Serbian authorities are exerting violence through Serbian police
forces in a number of regions in Kosove, such as in the commune of Skenderaj, the
township of Malisheva, etc.
      The present situation in Kosova is being discussed in the meeting of the European
Foreign Ministers in Brussels, in which the Albanian Foreign Minister Paskal Milo will make
a detailed report of what is happening in Kosova, with its 90 per cent of the population
Albanian.
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