POLICE SEIZE DOCUMENTS AFTER CONSTITUTION OF KOSOVO PARLIAMENT

( Editorial: --> 8042 ) PRISTINA, July 16 (Hina) - Immediately after the Kosovo parliament was constituted in Pristina on Thursday at the headquarters of the southern Yugoslav province's leading Albanian party, Serbian police intervened and seized all of the clandestine assembly's documents. At the constitutive meeting, which ended after noon, MPs took oaths and chose academic Idriz Ajeti as parliamentary speaker, three deputy speakers and a parliamentary secretary. The Albanian-dominated assembly has 130 members. At the end of the short meeting, strong police forces surrounded the headquarters of the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo and entered the building. According to eyewitness reports, police seized all documentation of the newly-constituted Kosovo parliament and then withdrew. The sources said the situation was tense but up to now there had been no arrests or any other actions by the police. (Hina) mbr jn /rml 161745 MET jul 98