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![]() Tuesday, April 7, 1998 Published at 13:54 GMT 14:54 UK ![]() ![]() ![]() Despatches ![]() Kosovo Albanians boycott Serb visit ![]() Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo demand independence
Ethnic Albanian leaders in the Serb province of Kosovo have refused to meet the Serbian President, Milan Milutinovic, for peace talks. They said they would only meet him in the presence of an international mediator - something the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, is still refusing to accept. From Kosovo, Humphrey Hawksley reports.
He arrived at the Pristina Municipal Offices with a delegation of negotiators sent from Serbia and they spent the first part of the day closeted in a conference room but with no Albanian representatives to talk to. The Albanians claim that Serbia is not interested in considering their demands for independence.
For their part the guerrillas don't appear to be listening. They are setting up their own checkpoints close to Serbian police positions, and are equipped now with new
automatic weapons and military fatigues bought mostly with the money of
Albanians living abroad in Switzerland and Germany.
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