(28 Jun 2007)
Gazimestan (10 kilometres north of Pristina) - 28 June 2007
1. Various of NATO soldiers around monument
2. Various of NATO on guard around monument
3. Soldier walking
4. Serbs arriving at monument
5. Group of teenagers outside monument
6. Tilt down from poem on monument wall
7. Close up of monument wall
8. People walking towards monument
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikko Autti, NATO spokesman:
"K4 (NATO peacekeeping force) has increased its presence in the streets, this is a matter of gaining situational awareness and is to show the public that we are here to provide a safe and secure environment and to assure freedom of movement for all Kosovars."
7. NATO military vehicles
8. Various of soldiers
Mitrovica (45 Kilometres north of Pristina) - 28 June 2007
9. Various of Serb paramilitaries, known as 'Tsar Lazar Guard' boarding bus
10. People wrapped in Serbian flags
11. Close of back of man's t-shirt with map of Kosovo and a wolf
12. People walking towards buses
13. United Nations (UN) police
14. Bus driving down road
15. Various of people inside bus
16. Various of UN police
Gracanica (10 kilometers east of Kosovo) - 28 June 2007
17. Arrival of buses
18. Exteriors of Serb monastery
19. Various of mass
20. Men wearing t-shirts reading (Serbian) 'War till freedom'
21. Various of people at mass
22. Close-up of T-shirt with fugitive general Radko Mladic's photo
23. Various of mass
24. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Voxpop, no name given:
"We are here to commemorate our day and in another way we are here to say we will never give Kosovo away."
25. People in street
26. Mid of guards
STORYLINE:
NATO stepped up security by deploying armoured vehicles and increased patrols on Thursday, on the anniversary of a key focus of Serbian nationalism to commemorate the epic battle of Kosovo, at the Field of Blackbirds, in 1389.
The Serbs consider Kosovo the cradle of their statehood, and mark the 28th of June, when a Christian army led by Serbian Prince Lazar was defeated in Kosovo by invading Ottoman forces, as one of the most important dates in their history.
The celebrations will be held on at the field of Gazimestan in eastern Kosovo at the height of tensions in the province, where ethnic Albanians are becoming continually frustrated over Kosovo's stalled future.
"K4 (NATO peacekeeping force) has increased its presence in the streets, this is a matter of gaining situational awareness and is to show the public that we are here to provide a safe and secure environment and to assure freedom of movement for all Kosovars," said NATO spokesman Mikko Autti.
A mass to celebrate the anniversary was also held in the city of Gracanica.
"We are here to commemorate our day and in another way we are here to say we will never give Kosovo away," said one participant in the celebrations.
Kosovo, a province of two million (m), of whom 90 percent are ethnic Albanians, has been run by the United Nations (UN) since mid-1999 when a NATO air war halted a crackdown by Serb forces on separatist rebels.
Earlier this year, the UN unveiled a peace plan that would grant Kosovo supervised independence.
This was immediately rejected by Serbia and by Russia, which has threatened to veto the plan in the UN Security Council.
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