A peaceful demonstration was held today in Prishtina, capital of the Republic of Kosovo, against the six-point plan initiated by Serbia and presented by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The plan foresees competencies for illegal Serb parallel structures and gives a say to Serbia on Kosovo matters. Kosovo leaders and citizens says that the plan is tantamount to ethnic partition.

Some 100,000 people participated at the demonstration voicing their displeasure with UN and the European Union for allowing Serb state interference in Kosovo internal matters. The demonstrators’ path symbolically drew a virtual "S" for sovereignty and ended by the UNMIK building, now occupied by EULEX, the EU rule of law mission which is finding it hard to deploy in Kosovo.

The crowd chanted "independence, soveregnity, equality, soveregnity," citing Article 2 of the Republic of Kosovo Constitution, which says that soveregnity derives from the people. Another slogan was "development, not plans," which was aimed at the European Union, which has supported the Serbia-Ban plan. “S’ban, s’ki, s’mun,” was a play on Ban Ki-moon’s name with the word Albanian word not. 

Albin Kurti from Vetevendosje! said that Europe in making plans on the back of Kosovo people. He also rejected the plan proposed by the Government of Kosovo and any further talks with Serbia on internal matters because as he put it this is their initial position, and it is inevitable that they would meet somewhere in the middle with Serbia. He asked the people to go to their villages and neighborhoods and be proactive in dealing with issues.

Albin Kurti from Vetevendosje!, Alban Bokshi from Çohu, Igballe Rugova from Women's Network and representatives from KLA Veteran's Organization after 90 minutes of marching and speeches, said that protests will continue until Serbia is not a factor anymore in Kosovo developments.

A protest will be held today as well in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York.