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Hungary calls for peaceful solution to ethnic clashes in Kosovo

Hungarian Foreign Minister Kovacs Laszlo Thursday urged a peaceful solution to the ethnic clashes in the Serbian province of Kosovo, that has killed 31 people and wounded 500 others.


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Hungarian Foreign Minister Kovacs Laszlo Thursday urged a peaceful solution to the ethnic clashes in the Serbian province of Kosovo, that has killed 31 people and wounded 500 others.

Negotiations between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs should be restarted immediately to stop the bloodshed, which has drawn concerns of the international community, Kovacs told a news conference.

The ethnic clashes broke out Wednesday in the ethnically divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica, 27 km north of the provincial capital of Pristina, a day after the drowning of two Kosovo Albanian boys, while the third was still missing.

TV reports said that dozens of Serbian houses were burned by Kosovo Albanian extremists in the past two days, and about 17 Orthodox churches in Kosovo were also set on fire.

Kosovo has been under United Nations administration since June 1999 following 11 weeks of NATO bombing.

The Serbian authorities has condemned the attacks, calling it "ethnic cleansing."

Many Kosovo Serbs were forced to leave their homes and seek protection from UN police and NATO-led peacekeepers since Serbian forces had been forced out in 1999.

Source: Xinhua


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