(3 Feb 2008) SHOTLIST
Pristina
1. Various of convoy of NATO Italian armoured personnel carriers and military trucks on street
Pristina
2. City skyline, pan right
3. Various street scenes
4. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Ekrem Murteza, Kosovo Albanian political commentator:
"I think that Serbia is so weak in its military and economic bases, and so de-masked in the international political sphere, that regardless of which presidential candidate wins, they will have no impact on Kosovo's future status. I don't believe that either of the candidates would take military steps against Kosovo. Eventually they would organise a protest, or an economic blockade, which will not last long. This blockade would harm Serbia more than Kosovo.'
5. Street scene
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Krenar Gashi, Kosovo Albanian journalist:
"The presidential election in Serbia will have very low impact in Kosovo's final status resolution. However because of the implication of the EU mission which is going to substituted the UNMIK (United Nation Mission in Kosovo) here it might have a difference depending who will win these elections."
7. Wide, street scene
Gracanica, eastern Kosovo
8. Wide of polling station
9. Close up of Serbian flag
10. Various set ups, Goran Arsic, Kosovo Serb activist, at computer
11. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Goran Arsic, Kosovo Serb activist:
"I expect the candidate who wins this election to lead us toward the EU, so we would not be the only country in the region not to be a member of the EU family. And I expect our future president to preserve the territorial integrity of Serbia."
12. Framed Serb emblem on wall
13. Various, Rada Trajkovic, Kosovo Serb liberal representative, voting
14. Kosovo Serbs registering to vote
15. Trajkovic voting
16. Close up, ballot papers
17. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Rada Trajkovic, Kosovo Serb liberal representative:
"I expect that Serb people to take responsibility and not vote for revenge, but for democracy, because it is the only way that we can solve the Kosovo problem."
18. Wide interior of polling station
STORYLINE
Serbs in Kosovo cast ballots on Sunday in a vote they hope will keep the province under Serbia's rule as NATO troops streamed into the tense region before an expected declaration of independence by majority ethnic Albanians.
NATO commanders moved hundreds of troops into the Kosovo capital Pristina, in case of trouble following the election of a new president in Serbia.
The closely contested race pits pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic against right-wing Tomislav Nikolic, who ruled with Milosevic during his bloody Balkan wars of the 1990s.
In Kosovo, Serbs have traditionally voted for radicals, who count on their support.
But Sunday's vote is predicted to be one of the tightest ever in Serbia.
The winner of the runoff may determine whether Serbia will continue on its path of pro-Western reform and closer ties with the European Union or return to isolation similar to that in Milosevic's era.
The outcome will also decide how Serbia will react to the expected declaration of independence by its cherished Kosovo province, dominated by pro-independence ethnic Albanians, and to any arrest of its war crimes
suspects.
Goran Arsic, a Kosovo Serb activist from central Kosovo told AP Television that he would expect the future president to preserve Serbia's territorial integrity.
But he added: "I expect the candidate who wins this election to lead us toward the EU, so we would not be the only country in the region not to be a member of EU family."
statehood.
It was a view echoed by Albanian journalist Krenar Gashi.
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