(22 Jan 2007)
Northern Mitrovica
1. Wide of bridge that divides Serbs and Albanian side of town
2. Mid of United Nations police at the bridge
3. Woman buying newspaper at stand
4. SOUNDBITE (Serbian): Snezana Zaparozic, resident:
"I think everything turned out to be very good, I really wanted Radicals to win. I would like to see Radicals together with Democratic Party forming the government. But I don't know what will happen."
5. Mid of election poster reading in Serbian "Long Live Serbia"
6. Mid of United Nations police at the bridge
Pristina
7. Wide of Pristina skyline
8. Cars driving down street
9. SOUNDBITE (Albanian): Aslan Aslani, 68-year-old local resident:
"I was so disappointed when I saw the news. To be very honest I cannot believe that again the Serbs choose Radicals in the twenty first century to lead them. It is sad for them and I feel sorry for Serbs that they decide to live their lives in wars, they always want blood on their hands."
10. Wide of street
Pristina
11. Students sitting at sidewalk cafe
12. SOUNDBITE (Albanian): Shpresa Ademaj, student:
"I know today there is meeting of ministers of Foreign Affairs in Brussels, and I want to tell them, speed up the process, we need our independence, we cannot have more delays. We need to end the Kosovo's final status by March, no delays please."
13. Wide of cafe, pedestrians
14. Exterior of Kosovo Government building
15. Flags outside building, including the United Nations flag
16. Various set up shots of Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku, in his office
17. SOUNDBITE (English): Agim Ceku, Kosovo's Prime Minister:
"The election in Serbia they are entirely internal Serbian business, that has nothing to do with Kosovo. The only thing that has to do with Kosovo is the date of the election. Now since they happened, we can move quickly to the decision on the final status of Kosovo and we hope that international community will, very soon now after this election, recognise the Kosovo's independence. Serbian people had the chance to vote for the future but the first signs says that some of them chose to vote for the past, and this makes the Serbian way toward Europe more slowly and more difficult than it should be. We all in the region want Serbia to be a democratic country and to move together with us towards European Union. But we hope in the end of the day that they will elect the government that will be more constructive, more realistic, and that will choose really European Union not the past."
18. Cutaway flags
19. SOUNDBITE (English): Agim Ceku, Kosovo's Prime Minister:
"Kosovo government is very interested to collaborate with all the governments in the region who are democratic and who are looking towards the European Union and to establish the relationship that will help each other to move together towards the European Union. If they elect such a government we'll be more than willing to cooperate with them."
20. Pedestrians
21. Wide of street
STORYLINE:
Some Kosovo Serbs welcomed the news on Monday, that the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party won the most votes in Sunday's Serbian parliamentary election, even as the region's Prime Minister expressed the hope that the vote would speed up the process of independence for Kosovo.
In the town of Mitrovica, where Albanians and Serbs face each other over a bridge that has come to symbolise the ethnic rivalries and the legacy of war, some Serbs were pleased with the results, but were uncertain about a coalition government in Belgrade.
But that is not enough for the party to govern alone, the state electoral commission said.
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