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		Or is it perhaps that the goal behind the Presevo rebellion was to "draw international attention" to the Albanian question, as the UCPMB claims?
		It might sound cynical, but maybe ending the Presevo rebellion was NATO’s quid pro quo to the Serbs, a favor for Belgrade in return for Serbia and Yugoslavia standing idly by as UN/NATO’s governor of Kosovo gave the occupied province a quasi-independence "Constitution" last week.
		The final straw has to be the recent initiative by Nebojsa Covic, deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Presevo situation, to partition Kosovo into ethnic entities.
	www.antiwar.com /malic/m052401.html (1669 words)

	UCPMB
		Guerrilla group fighting for independence from Serbia for the regions of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, Albanian-dominated areas situated north of Kosovo.
		Former KLA guerrilla soldiers quickly established bases in the demilitarized zone, and Serbian police had to stop patrolling the area to avoid beeing ambushed.
		In Bujanovac, four bombs were detonated in February, one near an elementary school, two in a Gypsy neighbourhood and one next to a cinema.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/uc/UCPMB.html (295 words)

	Serbian News Network: Southern Serbia, or the Albanian "Motive-Hunting"
		The platform, which was adopted on 14th January by council members from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, “respecting the will of the citizens to define the Presevo Valley as a constitutional and territorial region”, demands for a “special status”, which definitely goes beyond standard autonomy.
		Along with Mustafa, Skender Destani, president of Democratic Union of the Presevo Valley and Orhan Rexhepi, president of Party of Democratic Progress pointed out that Halimi was an obstacle to their cherished goal, which is to unite to Kosovo the three municipalities in Serbia with large Albanian communities.
		Presevo is the most undeveloped municipality, with a GDP per capita that is a sixth that of Serbia's average.
	www.antic.org /Weblog/2006/04/southern-serbia-or-albanian-motive.html (1736 words)

	Children wounded in Presevo grenade attack B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		PRESEVO -- Saturday – Two fifteen-year-old girls were wounded in one of a series of explosions last night in the courtyard of a cultural centre in the south Serbian town of Presevo.
		Two grenades, it was confirmed to Tanjug in RTV Vranje, fell in the courtyard of the Cultural Center, while one fell on an adjacent house.
		In a statement for BK Television, Covic assessed that the attack Saturday evening on Presevo, in which two fifteen-year-olds were slightly injured, was yet another attempt to destabilize the south of Serbia, but also evidence that the terrorists are panicking.
	emperor.vwh.net /reports/news/tanjug082403.htm (289 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Tense times in Southern Serbia
		About 20â000 ethnic Albanians gathered on 9 January in southern Serbia's Presevo region for the funeral of 16 year-old Dashnim Hajrullahu, who was killed by a Serbian border guard two days earlier as he tried to cross illegally into Macedonia in the border triangle region between southern Serbia, Macedonia, and Kosova.
		Presevo Mayor Riza Halimi said "if it is the desire of the state to defend its integrity and sovereignty by murdering a child, then such a state has no chance of survival".
		Croatia has long called for the removal of Serbian troops along their common border in response to several apparently isolated incidents, and the EU has reportedly urged Serbia to replace border troops with specially trained police in order to cut down trafficking in drugs, goods, and humans headed for EU countries.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10560 (1080 words)

	Serbia: Albanian Death Fuels Presevo Secession Calls
		Presevo High School student Dasnim Hajrullahu was killed on January 7 near the village of Miratovac, close to Serbia’s border with Macedonia.
		Presevo’s new mayor Regmi Mustafa, leader of the Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, warned that Albanians would seriously consider walking out of the local government and forming their own parallel institutions if the Serbian authorities fail to deal with the border fatality to their satisfaction.
		Former Presevo mayor Riza Hallimi said that dialogue between Belgrade and the region’s authorities had ground to a halt after the hard-line Vojislav Kostunica was appointed prime minister of Serbia.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2005/Presevo.html (842 words)

	Southern Serbia, or the Albanian "Motive-Hunting"
		The platform, which was adopted on 14th January by council members from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, “respecting the will of the citizens to define the Presevo Valley as a constitutional and territorial region”, demands for a “special status”, which definitely goes beyond standard autonomy.
		Along with Mustafa, Skender Destani, president of Democratic Union of the Presevo Valley and Orhan Rexhepi, president of Party of Democratic Progress pointed out that Halimi was an obstacle to their cherished goal, which is to unite to Kosovo the three municipalities in Serbia with large Albanian communities.
		Presevo is the most undeveloped municipality, with a GDP per capita that is a sixth that of Serbia's average.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=809 (1706 words)

	EAR - Serbia - Annual Programme 2001 - Part 2 - Regional development in the Presevo Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		According to the economic development plan conducted by the municipalities of the Presevo Valley and submitted to the “Coordination Body” that was created under the Covic plan, the immediate development priorities lie in the area of agricultural development (e.g.
		Past EU assistance in the Presevo Valley was provided by ECHO, and by the Schools and Towns for Democracy programmes.
		The overall objective is to contribute to the stabilisation of the social and political environment by addressing the high level of unemployment.
	www.ear.eu.int /serbia/main/serbia-a1c2c3c4.htm (1415 words)

	Muslimedia.com
		A top aide of Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostinica announced on December 3 that his government was seeking NATO’s approval for a plan to push Albanian fighters from a 200-square-kilometre sliver of land in southeast Serbia after parliamentary elections in Serbia to be held on December 23.
		The Presevo Valley was the scene of armed confrontations in late November and early December between ethnic Albanian fighters belonging to the Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja (known by its Albanian acronym UCPMB, standing for Ushtria Clirimatre e Presheve, Medvegje e Bujanovac) and Serbian forces.
		Presevo’s population is estimated to be 92 percent Albanian, Bujanovac’s 65 percent, and Medvedja’s 35 percent.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/world00/serb-new.htm (1167 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		About 20,000 ethnic Albanians gathered in the Presevo region on 9 January for the funeral of 16-year-old Dashnim Hajrullahu, who was killed by a Serbian border guard two days earlier as he tried to cross illegally into Macedonia in the border triangle region between southern Serbia, Macedonia, and Kosova.
		In Prishtina, several Kosovar dailies on 10 January called for international peacekeepers to be sent to the Presevo Valley area in response to the killing.
		In Prishtina, some media commentators suggested that Belgrade was deliberately stirring up trouble in Presevo in order to destabilize the situation in Kosova and thereby further delay the resolution of the province's final status.
	www.rferl.org /reports/balkan-report/2005/01/2-140105.asp (1788 words)

	Military.com Content
		KFOR can expect the number of guerrilla forces to grow along the border and for its forces, and those of the Serbs, to be under the constant threat of ambush.
		KFOR efforts to contain the Presevo Valley will resemble the cleanup missions by Russian paratroopers at the end of the1999 incursion by Islamic militants in Dagestan.
		KFOR's objective in the Presevo Valley is to contain the militants in their strongholds and to rout them from towns under partial control.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=SG15march01 (945 words)

	DPI
		Presevo at this historic moment has turned into a three dimensional picture.
		On the other hand, the Presevo valley Albanian politicians, including UÇPMB, are still preparing their platform, which was supposed to be published last week but was delayed for several days.
		To solve the conflict in the Presevo valley, Kouchner suggessted a dialogue between the civilian and military side.
	www.unmikonline.org /press/2001/mon/lmm120201.html (2450 words)

	Lobi
		Except Medvedja, the Albanians form the majority: in Presevo 90 percent of the population and in Bujanovac 54.5 percent (2002 census).
		The aim was to “liberate” the Presevo Valley re-baptised as “eastern Kosovo”.
		The UCPMB exploited the eastern section of this safety zone, adjacent to the Presevo Valley, to use as a base for launching attacks on the police and other targets.
	www.lobi.com.mk /?ItemID=3EB54251F2C4954880CBA2048A27E15C (1695 words)

	Gunfire Erupts in Serbia's Volatile Presevo Valley
		The village is located in the Presevo Valley, an area just outside Kosovo's administrative borders about 160 miles south of Belgrade.
		Other shooting incidents have taken place in Kosovo, but the Presevo Valley is considered the most sensitive area in the southern Balkans, the only place where Albanians are confronting Serb authorities.
		U.S. peacekeepers patrol the boundary overlooking the Presevo Valley, which is outside the territory covered by the peacekeepers' U.N. mandate.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2000/Presevo.html (331 words)

	CNN.com - Presevo peace plan receives cautious welcome - February 15, 2001
		The Presevo Valley next to the Kosovo province in southern Serbia is the scene of increasingly violent clashes between ethnic Albanian extremists and Serb security forces.
		An estimated 1,600 armed guerillas from the self-styled Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB) are operating inside a five kilometre wide ground safety zone (GSZ) dividing Kosovo, which is patrolled by NATO-led forces, and Serbia's Presevo Valley.
		He claimed the military operating in Presevo are "different soldiers" and said the presence of Serb military could "not be an excuse for not complying with a peaceful resolution to the crisis."
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/02/15/kelly.presevo/index.html (961 words)

	ALBANIAN PARTIES FROM SOUTHERN SERBIA DEMAND AUTONOMY FOR PRESEVO VALLEY BBC Monitoring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Presevo, 28 July: Three Albanian opposition political parties in southern Serbia - the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA), the Movement for Democratic Progress (PDP), and the Democratic Union of the (Presevo) Valley (DUD) - today adopted a political platform demanding territorial and political autonomy for the "Presevo Valley" with the right to unite with Kosovo.
		The text of the platform, on which the council worked for two months in Presevo, demands that representatives of the "Presevo Valley" be included in the negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo on the province's final status.
		The Consensual Council will demand that the final status of Albanians be settled together with the final status of Kosovo, that the Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja region be defined as an autonomous region called "Presevo Valley", and that the region be demilitarized under the international community's supervision.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/beta072804.htm (290 words)

	NATO Anxious About Albanian Secession Ideas
		NATO officials say that after two ethnic Albanian farmers were allegedly slain by Serb paramilitaries, the village came under the control of ethnic Albanian rebels, a situation confirmed by NATO peacekeepers peering at the village over the border through binoculars.
		Now there are 600 bunked in the Presevo youth center and Yumko textile factory, and another 100 in a barracks near the Macedonian border, residents say.
		Shaqir Shaqiri, a native of Presevo who is now deputy commander of the Kosovo Protection Corps in Gnjilane--a police force that includes former KLA rebels --said "For sure, there's going to be a war.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/28/035r-022800-idx.html (1199 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		PRESEVO, Southern Serbia, Apr 18, 2002 -- Moderate ethnic Albanians in southern Serbia have marginalised former guerrilla commanders in the region through an historic decision to switch their allegiance from Kosovo to Belgrade.
		The decision appears to mark the end of a decade-long campaign to join the three municipalities of Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja and their 70,000 or so Albanians to Kosovo.
		Albanian enthusiasm for the census is not shared by the Serbian community in the Presevo valley.
	www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/alert807.html (876 words)

	Analysis: Balkans, Kosovo: Serbs leaving Presevo Valley
		Frustrated by insecurity and poor prospects, Serbs are leaving the Presevo border region and heading for new lives in central Serbia.
		Although fighting stopped six months ago in the Presevo valley of southern Serbia's border region, Serb residents are quitting the area to find new homes in the central part of the country.
		Fighting flared in the area - comprising the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja - in 1999 after the forces of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic withdrew from Kosovo and began a campaign of repression against Albanians in the region.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/93121fc92f6b201ec1256b0b00663f10 (840 words)

	NATO Press Release
		Recent developments in the Presevo Valley, and the Ground Safety Zone (GSZ) adjacent to Kosovo's internal boundary with Serbia, are of growing concern to NATO and KFOR.
		NATO condemns and deplores the attacks made and the violence caused by a minority of extremists near the Presevo Valley and calls on the perpetrators to cease their illegal activity forthwith.
		Increased reconnaissance and surveillance operations along the eastern boundary of Kosovo adjacent to the Presevo Valley will be carried out, combined with an increase in the monitoring and recording of violent activity in the Ground Safety Zone.
	www.nato.int /docu/pr/2000/p00-112e.htm (643 words)

	DefenseNews.com - Kosovo Partition Could Threaten Region: Think Tank - 06/27/06 11:59
		Ninety-percent populated by Albanians, Kosovo is pushing for independence in talks this year, seven years after NATO bombs drove out Serb forces to halt a wave of ethnic cleansing in a two-year war with separatist guerrillas.
		Some Kosovo Albanian leaders back efforts by their kin in Presevo to muscle in on the Kosovo talks, to secure the same rights within Serbia that Serbs are likely to win in Kosovo.
		Spillover from the 2000-01 Presevo conflict was seen as a factor in the outbreak of an insurgency in 2001 among the Albanian minority in Macedonia.
	www.defensenews.com /story.php?F=1912089&C=europe (389 words)

	Analysis: Balkans, Albanian rebels threaten Presevo Accord
		The UCKL is distributing leaflets among the Albanians on the border between Kosovo and Serbia, urging them to dump the Presevo peace project, and protesting against the international community's decision to allow Yugoslav forces to re-deploy inside the border zone.
		But Riza Halimi, mayor of Presevo, who had a prominent role in ending the conflict, says a new rebel army is not the solution.
		He says it would be "fatal for the Presevo Albanians to mount an armed revolt in the present situation".
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/ded6dc41332f5396c1256b02004a0af7 (812 words)

	BALKAN UPDATE
		The South Serbia Coordination Centre reported that great progress has been made in the municipality of Bujanovac, but that there are still many problems to take care of, one of the main ones being the lack of participation in the institutional system by Albanians.
		Justice Minister Stojkovic and Human and Minority Rights Minister Ljajic, who is also president of the Coordination Centre for the municipalities of Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja, met with South Serbia municipal officials Riza Halimi, Nagib Arifi and Slobodan Draskovic regarding the methods of getting Albanians to participate in the regional legal institutions.
		Presevo Municipal President Riza Halimi told B92 that during the discussions, all possible solutions for creating a better ethnic balance within the courts were taken into consideration.
	www.balkanupdate.com /2005/11/what-do-to-in-presevo-valley.html (305 words)

	[Prishtina-E] (No Subject) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Their declared goal had been to end Serbias authority in Presevo and two other border districts, parts of which overlap with the 5-kilometre-wide demilitarized zone between Kosova and Serbia, known as the Ground Safety Zone (GSZ).
		Local residents voted overwhelmingly for autonomy and possible unification with Kosova in the referendum held in the former Yugoslavia in 1992.
		The UCPMB, which models itself on the UCK in name, uniform and tactics, consists of a few hundred well-armed fighters who are active in the hills of the no-mans-land around Presevo town, about 12 kilometres east of the boundary between Serbia and Kosova.
	www.alb-net.com /pipermail/prishtina-e/2001-January/000272.html (1023 words)

	Current News
		The recent series of events in the Presevo Valley is of great concern.
		This situation along the Kosovo and Presevo Valley border region constitutes a threat to peace and security for Kosovo and could develop into a regional security issue.
		Any unrest, instability or insurgency operations within the Presevo Valley are clearly not in the best interest of the international community, KFOR military forces or the people of Kosovo.
	www.hqusareur.army.mil /htmlinks/Press_Releases/2K/March/20000313-1.htm (447 words)

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