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| | CNN.com - Kosovo assembly marks historic day - December 10, 2001 |
 | | The 120-seat assembly, designed to give the volatile southern Yugoslav province autonomy under a United Nations umbrella, met on Monday amid tight security in the regional capital Pristina. |
 | | "This is a historical day for Kosovo," Kosovo's U.N. governor Hans Haekkerup, who is temporary chairman of the assembly, told the legislators, who were searched before entering the building and had to walk through a metal detector to reach the chamber. |
 | | But the meeting was marred by a brief walkout by deputies of the assembly's second largest party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo led by former guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci, protesting that their proposals were ignored. |
| archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/12/10/kosovo.parliament/index.html (468 words) |
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