ALBANIAN PEN CENTRE APPEALS FOR 'SALVATION OF KOSOVO'

( Editorial: --> 7660 ) PRISTINA, Mar 6 (Hina) - The Albanian PEN centre in Pristina Friday forwarded an appeal to all international PEN centres in which it claims the "year-long systematic violence of the Belgrade regime over two million Kosovo Albanians has recently turned from terror into a real massacre". "Kosovo Albanians are in a real quarantine in which close to 500,000 members of police and paramilitary forces are committing genocide. Kosovo (...) demands that Albanians and Kosovo be saved," said the appeal. The Albanian PEN centre appeals to writers, intellectuals and scholars and their conscience to realise the nature of the Kosovo issue, visit the area and in their circles speak on the matter, because "Kosovo is seeking salvation". (hina) ha jn /mb 061541 MET mar 98