KOSOVO ALBANIANS HOLD PEACEFUL RALLY IN PRISTINA

( Editorial: --> 5830 ) PRISTINA, April 9 (Hina) - Tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanians held a half-hour peaceful rally in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday. The rally was held in protest against violence and government terror. They asked for the withdrawal of Serbian police from Kosovo and recognition of Kosovo's independence. Protesters again called on international factors to urgently intervene and stop the Serbian terror in Kosovo, and thus avoid war and all its incalculable consequences. Serbian police blocked the main street in Pristina, but the protesters gathered in front of the building of the former province government and in adjacent streets. Leading the protesters were leaders of Albanian political parties and non-government organisations, as well as heads of the Albanian University in Pristina and the Independent Union of Albanian Students. The protest was organised by 14 political and non-political organisations in Kosovo headed by the most numerous Kosovo Albanian party - The Democratic Union of Kosovo. The peaceful rally ended without incidents, according to preliminary information. (hina) lm jn 091556 MET apr 98