SERBIA MUST GUARANTEE SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS - DEMAQI

( Editorial: --> 6603 ) PRISTINA, July 9 (Hina) - The president of the Parliamentary Party of Kosovo Adem Demaqi said on Thursday he recently had a meeting with representatives of the Kosovo Liberation Army (OVK) who said they were willing to cooperate but were also determined to fight for their freedom. The OVK will not cease with battles unless the Serbian regime offer guarantees that it is seriously intentioned to negotiate, Demaqi told foreign reporters visiting the south Yugoslav province as reported by Koha Ditore, a Pristina daily in Albanian, on Thursday. The said guarantees mean that Albanians in Kosovo be given back the rights they enjoyed in March 1989, before the province's autonomy was abolished, said Demaqi. This is the precondition for the beginning and end of the negotiations, he said. Demaqi said he told OVK representatives that he recognised them and expected them to respond to his idea that the Kosovo Parliamentary Party become their political wing. (hina) ha jn 091403 MET jul 98