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Reax in Mitrovica as Kosovo marks one year since declaring independence

(17 Feb 2009) 1. Wide of Kosovska Mitrovica street 2. Wide of Serbian flags 3. Mid of banner reading: (Serbian) "Russia is with us" 4. Mid of two Belgian North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldiers approaching the camera telling its operator to point the camera away 5. Mid of two KFOR soldiers on patrol 6. Mid of graffiti on the wall reading: (English) "EULEX (European Union Rule of Law Mission) go home" 7. Tracking of two women walking along street 8. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Nikola Blagojevic, Mitrovica resident: "This is not an independent state, it is a fake state. We are attending class today and a big rally will be held later." 9. Close of Mitrovica bridge sign 10. Wide of deserted bridge 11. KFOR vehicle 12. Soldiers entering KFOR vehicle 13. EULEX vehicle 14. Close up of EULEX licence plates 15. Mitrovica with police car in foreground 16. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Marko Jaksic, local Serb leader: "It is the one-year anniversary since the government in Pristina declared cessation from Belgrade. This year passed with Pristina intentionally trying to organise authority across all Kosovar territory, with the use of violence and bomb throwing, with the intention of installing their state with a reduced number of Serbs living in it. I hope that next year we will be here and with the help of Belgrade, prevent Albanians from making another state in the Balkans." 17. Wide of Mitrovica, Serbian flags in foreground STORYLINE Serbians in the Kosovar city of Mitrovica were preparing to rally at a demonstration on Tuesday in protest of Kosovo Albanians' one-year anniversary of independence from Serbia. Thousands of Serbians are expected to attend. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. Some 90 percent of Kosovo's people are Albanians. However, the majority of Serbians refuse to recognise Kosovo's independence from Serbia. Nikola Blagojevic, a Mitrovica resident, said Kosovo was "not an independent state, it is a fake state". Some 54 nations have given Kosovo formal diplomatic recognition. Although they include the U.S. and key European powers such as Britain, France and Germany, only 22 of the EU's 27 member states have recognised Kosovo. A few of the other nations that have recognised Kosovo have provoked derision because they're so tiny, such as Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Russia, an ally of Serbia, has blocked attempts to get the U.N. Security Council to endorse independence. Unemployment is still rampant in Kosovo at around 45 percent and international investment has largely eluded the tiny country where bombs still explode in northern areas tensely divided between Serbs and ethnic Albanians. Last year, after Kosovo's parliament enacted a new constitution, UN administrators handed over supervision of the fledgling country to a two thousand-member EU mission of police officers, judges and advisers. But the mission has not been able to fully deploy in the north, and Serbia has denounced it as illegal and illegitimate. Marko Jaksic, a local Serb leader, said the Kosovar government in Pristina was trying to assert its authority across the entire Kosovar territory including areas with a Serbian majority. Jaksic said the government was doing this "with the use of violence and bomb throwing, with the intention of installing their state with a reduced number of Serbs living in it." Minority Serbs living in Kosovo list security as their main worry with many saying they live in fear of reprisals from ethnic Albanians. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...