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Peacekeepers trade fire
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NATO-LED international peacekeeping troops exchanged fire with ethnic Albanian extremists on Wednesday in Kosovo and injured two of them, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported.
According to a statement released by the peacekeepers, fighting broke out around 9am on Wednesday morning when a group of US soldiers came across six armed ethnic Albanians coming from Macedonia at the border area of Kosovo.
The US soldiers opened fire and injured two ethnic Albanians, the statement said.
Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic on Wednesday urged Kosovo leaders to hold talks with his government so as to solve the divisions between the Albanians and Serbs in the province.
Speaking to the press, Zizic, who is on a brief visit at the UN headquarters in New York, said: "I am ready to talk to the representatives of Kosovo Albanians, under the auspices of the UNSecretary-General."
"The talks could take place either in the Yugoslav capital Belgrade, Kosovo's provincial capital Pristina or at UN headquarters in New York," the prime minister said.
He said there would be no basis for building a multi-ethnic multicultural and multireligious society in Kosovo if there are no such talks.
Kosovo, the southern Serbian province of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, is now under UN administration. The UN mandate in Kosovo is to create a democratic autonomy but not the independence demanded by the ethnic Albanians.(Xinhua)
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