(9 Jan 2008)
1. Wide of street
2. Mid of Serbian flags
3. People walking across street
4. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) name not given, vox pop:
"There is no hope that we can make any agreement with Thaci.They always choose someone who participated the most and caused all the troubles in 1999."
5. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) name not given, vox pop:
"It came to that, that Albanians will elect a renown war criminal for the prime minister, I think that kind of choice speaks for itself."
6. Policeman standing on street
7. Wide of Belgrade post office building
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dusan Janjic, political analyst:
"From Belgrade's point of view, that is a new challenge. Indeed, Thaci is seen in Belgrade as a guerilla leader, not as one new modern politician. But according to the first data, about negotiation and composition of the government, he looks like as the serious modern politician which will be welcomed from the West and from the States. That means that Thaci's government will straighten the Albanian arguments for the sovereignty and independence. That means from the opposite side, that Belgrade will be dissatisfied and will try to, indeed, criticise Thaci's government from the point of view of his curriculum or his ex-guerilla practice."
9. Billboard with poster of Serbian Radical Party presidential candidate, Tomislav Nikolic
10. Wide of government building
STORYLINE:
Serb's reacted on Wednesday to the news that Kosovo's parliament elected former rebel leader Hashim Thaci as prime minister in a vote foreshadowing a declaration of independence from Serbia.
"That Albanians will elect renown a war criminal for the prime minister, I think that kind of choice speaks for itself," said one man in Belgrade on Wednesday.
Thaci, was elected by a vote of 85-22 to head a coalition government that will try to steer the province through a declaration of independence, a course supported by the United States and some European governments but fiercely opposed by Serbia and Russia.
Thaci told The Associated Press that the timing for a declaration of independence was an issue of weeks, but cautioned that no move would be made without the approval of the United States and key European powers.
Thaci is Kosovo's fifth prime minister since the southern Serbian province came under United Nations administration.
The UN took control of Kosovo after a 78-day NATO bombing campaign in 1999 that ended a Serb crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians.
"There is no hope that we can make any agreement with Thaci. They always choose someone who participated the most and caused all the troubles in 1999," said another Belgrade resident.
Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo, which won the most votes in November elections, will govern alongside its main opponent, President Fatmir Sejdiu's Democratic League of Kosovo.
Earlier on Wednesday, Sejdiu was re-elected to his post as president, defeating an opposition candidate in the third round of the secret vote, which required a simple majority.
Amid thunderous applause the newly elected Cabinet stood as they took an oath in the province's assembly in the capital, Pristina.
Both parties support statehood for the province, whose population is more than 90 percent ethnic Albanian.
Jointly, the parties will hold 62 seats in the province's 120-seat assembly.
Western diplomats have pushed for the creation of a broad coalition, which they see as a guarantee of stability as Kosovo moves closer to independence.
"Belgrade will be dissatisfied and will try to, indeed, criticise Thaci's government from the point of view of his curriculum or his ex-guerilla practice," Janjic added.

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