(15 Feb 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Exterior of parliament building
2. Various of parliament session in progress
3. Close up of Jakup Krasniqi, Kosovo parliamentary leader
4. Mid of parliament in session
5. Session ending and parliamentarians coming out
6. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Slavisa Petkovic, Serbian Parliamentarian, Liberal Party:
"The mood of the Serbian community in Kosovo is, how to say this, it has been the same for a while. The Serbian community is scared, the Serbian community is confused, the Serbian community doesn't trust the Kosovo institutions even more so the international community. Today we have to make sure that fear doesn't express itself in some other ways. I am using this opportunity to tell all the Kosovo people to stay calm, not to allow anyone to provoke them."
7. Cutaway to Petkovic speaking to press
8. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Slavisa Petkovic, Serbian Parliamentarian, Liberal Party:
"Our activities, our taking part in the election, our place in the parliament, our place in the government clearly shows to everybody that we support everything that's progressive and everything that is in the interest of the people living in Kosovo. We have a clear goal, not just for the Serbian community but for all the people of Kosovo that is that everybody is well. Because if it's not going well for your community which has the ethnic majority, it won't be good for us either. So we have no dilemmas, we know that and say this, it's that the situation in Kosovo isn't good and that the status quo is unbearable. It's not holding together well and that we need to find a solution as soon possible."
9. Wide of parliament
STORYLINE:
Kosovo's parliament met for the last time in Pristina on Friday before it is expected to proclaim independence this weekend.
The proclamation is likely to raise tensions between the ethnic Albanian majority and the Serbian minority.
About ten Serb delegates sit in the Kosovo parliament.
The Liberal Party representative, Slavisa Petkovic said the Serbian community is "scared" and "confused" and "doesn't trust the Kosovo institutions even more so the international community."
"We have to make sure that fear doesn't express itself in some other ways. I am using this opportunity to tell all the Kosovo people to stay calm, not to allow anyone to provoke them," he added.
Petkovic described the current situation in Kosovo as "unbearable", and added that a solution needed to be found "as soon as possible."
Around a 100,000 Serbs live in Kosovo, some of them scattered in central and eastern Kosovo while the rest are grouped in the troubled north bordering the rest of Serbia.
Although NATO peacekeepers patrol Kosovo's north alongside a multiethnic local police force, the area is dominated by minority Serbs and has eluded full U.N. and NATO control.
Although the date has been made known, ethnic Albanian leaders are expected to declare Kosovo independent from Serbia this Sunday and count on the support of the United States and most nations in the European Union.
Kosovo is legally part of Serbia, but has been run by the United Nations and NATO following NATO's 78-day bombing camping against Serb troops that was aimed at ending a brutal crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians.
Western capitals support Kosovo's statehood, but Serbia has allied with Russia in trying to prevent any move that would allow Kosovo to break away.
Russia has threatened to veto any move in the U.N. Security Council to recognise Kosovo as a state.
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