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BELGRADE - The national library of Serbia protested strongly Thursday to UNESCO because of the burning of books in Serbian by rampaging Albanian extremists in Kosovo and Meothija and called for the urgent protection of the entire the cultural wealth in the province.
We were astonished to hear that ethnic Albanian terrorists have burned or in other ways destroyed in libraries in Kosovo-Metohija, from where they previously expelled Serbs, over two million books in the Serbian language, including works by Pushkin, Goethe and Balzac, whose anniversaries will be celebrated this year by the entire world, the letter said.
In addition, the systematic destruction of antient and priceless monuments of culture (monasteries, churches and other objects), and of valuable archives, lead us to believe that Albanian terrorists are intent on destorying everything that bears testimony to Serbian history, civilization and culture in the southern Serbian province.
We expect from UNESCO to form an international commission that would, under the protection of KFOR and the U.N. mission in Kosovo, determine all relevant facts and inform about them the cultural public in Serbia, in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Europe and the world, and propose urgent measures for the protection of the entire cultural wealth in Kosovo, the letter said.