KOSOVO ALBANIANS SEND LETTER TO CONTACT GROUP

( Editorial: --> 0063 ) PRISTINA, April 28 (Hina) - Kosovo's Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms and the Independent Union of Kosovo's Albanian Attorneys requested the Contact Group, which is to meet in Rome on Wednesday, to undertake effective measures aimed at ceasing the violence in Kosovo and solving the Kosovo issue. In the letter forwarded to the Contact Group, the Kosovo Albanians warned that the situation in Kosovo was becoming explosive after Yugoslav army mlitary training operations had turned into a heavy mass attack on the residents of villages in the Decani and Djakovica municipalities. The Kosovo Albanians claim that large numbers of Yugoslav military and police troops were pooling on the border with Albania. Kosovo's Committee for the Protection of Human rights and Freedoms and the Independent Union of Kosovo's Albanian Attorneys called on the Contact Group to make Wednesday's decisions in Rome in accordance to the difficult situation in Kosovo. "Your decisions can save the Albanian people in Kosovo from great dangers they are faced with," the letter said. (hina) lm 281246 MET apr 98