Firing at peacekeepers' house, Kosovo Serb sot, voting
(12 Dec 2010) SHOTLIST Gracanica 1. Exterior of polling station with voters 2. Mid of Kosovo Serb politician Rada Trajkovic approaching polling booth 3. Close of ballot 4. Trajkovic casting ballot 5. Close of letters indicating voting order 6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Rada Trajkovic, Kosovo Serb politician: "I belong to those that believe that Kosovo is one territory and the Serbs in the north will have to join at some point in time a mutual voting process. I deeply believe that the institutional links of the north with Pristina do not have to happen because of the Albanians and the institutions in Pristina, but have to happen because of the Serbs living south of the river Ibar." 7. Wide of police cars and police Pristina 8. Wide exterior of polling station in Pristina 9. Voters inside polling station 10. Election officials, voters 11. Voter casting ballot 12. Various of people voting 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Besim Rraci, ethnic Albanian voter, Vox pop: "I'm waiting for the economical development of Kosovo and also for a better life of people who live here and liberalisation of visas, and to be part of Europe." Pristina 14. Exterior of NATO headquarters, soldiers at entrance 15. Mid of officer with NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo, known as KFOR 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Hannes Wichtler, KFOR spokesman: "As far as we know there was obviously some destruction, some window panes broken, some shots against the wall and then a letter was found and we, together with the police, are investigating this incident so far." 17. Cutaway of uniform emblem 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Hannes Wichtler, KFOR spokesman: "Not really. We take every incident serious, but we are not alarmistic. We are not panicked. We investigate what is true, what is false. Sometimes there are always people who try to bring themselves into important situations. We assess that and we go on with the investigations, apart from that this Sunday so far is very calm and quiet without major incidents and we will deal with that." 19. Police officials in meeting room, pan left 20. Mid shot of police officials 21. Pan right of operations room 22. Computer screen showing street scene 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Baki Kelani, Kosovo Police spokesperson: "Kosovar police have made a plan for today's elections and according to our plans, we have 6,000 police officers which are going to be today on duty to take care of the security of the citizens who are going to vote." 24. End shot of operations centre STORYLINE Kosovars were on Sunday voting in their first general poll since the country's declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, a critical election already marred by ethnic tension that many fear will split the world's newest country. Serbia has called for Kosovo's Serb minority to boycott the vote in protest at its declaration of independence that Belgrade has refused to acknowledge. The boycott call has deepened fears the country could split into a Serb north and an ethnic Albanian south, a reverse of decades of efforts by the West to calm ethnic tensions in the region. The move is likely to weaken Pristina's claim over the territory in upcoming EU-brokered talks with Serbia on resolving the long-standing dispute. The region is patrolled by NATO peacekeepers and EU police, but is run as a fiefdom by local Serb leaders picked by Belgrade. In the Serbian enclave of Gracanica, just outside the capital Pristina, one Kosovo Serb politician encouraged Serbs in the North to go out and vote. Ten of the seats are reserved for minority Serbs, some of whom are running in the poll. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
