Unrest in Kosovo

The rioting inside and outside the Kosovo assembly on Tuesday left six policemen and one protester injured, the Beta agency is reporting.

Two people have been arrested, said a Kosovo police spokesman.

Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci "has called on Serbia to support Kosovo's admission to UNESCO," Beta is quoting Albanian language media in Pristina.

According to the agency, the daily Koha Ditore reported that Thaci told AP such an outcome would "preserve and reconfirm" Serb cultural and historical heritage.

Despite compelling evidence, Serbia has failed to prosecute policemen and soldiers responsible for the largest mass killing of the Kosovo war which left 350 Albanians dead, a new report said.

A former commander of a French special unit that was part of NATO's KFOR in Kosovo says UNESCO should not allow Kosovo to join.

According to Colonel Jacques Hogard, Kosovo does not belong there.

Families of Serbs who were killed or went missing in the Kosovo war are appealing to UNESCO member states not to support Pristina’s bid to join the UN cultural body.

Police in Kosovo fired tear gas on Oct. 12 on dozens of protesters who threw stones and smashed windows after a leading opposition MP was taken in for questioning.

Orthodox priest Sasa Mitrovic and his wife Marija are the first Serbs to return to the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica after 11 years.

The Serbs were driven out of the southern Mitrovica, inhabited by ethnic Albanians, in 1999, and the few that remained were expelled during the anti-Serb pogrom in the March of 2004.

"Kosovo has NATO's approval to establish the Armed Forces of Kosovo," the website Kossev has said, quoting a statement from the Foreign Ministry in Pristina.

According to this, Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci and Minister for European Integration Bekim Colak met with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs Todd Chapman

Marko Djuric said on Thursday that he "thinks the time has come for representatives of Belgrade and Pristina to talk directly."

The director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija was addressing a conference dubbed "Building Serbian-Albanian Relations" held in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.

Supporters of the opposition ethnic Albanian Self-Determination party in Kosovo launched a series of protests today, Tanjug is reporting.

The first of the protests, held against the establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) was staged in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, and gathered around 20 people.