Biden visits Serb monastery, Serb protesters burn US flag
US Vice-President Joseph Biden visited the Serb Orthodox medieval monastery of Visoki Decanin, in western Kosovo, while Serb protesters burned a US flag in Kosovska Mitrovica, north.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, May 22, 2009
The protest was organized by the Assembly of the Associations of Kosovo and Metohija Municipalities. The protesters carried banners saying: "The Killer Returns to the Crime Scene" and "We Are Not Finished".
The citizens lighted candles before the momument to the victims fo the NATO bombing, while flowers were laid by the chairman of the Serbian parliament's Kosovo and Metohija Committee - Ljubomir Kragovic and the president and vice president of the Assembly of the Associations of Kosovo and Metohija Municipalities - Radovan Nicic and Marko Jaksic respectively.
The Kosovo police stepped up their presence during the Serb protests close to the main bridge that separates the northern from the southern part of Mitrovica.
