Below is an article written by Nicholas Wood published by International Herald Tribune:

For the second time in less than a month, thousands of ethnic Albanians took to the streets of this city Saturday [3 March 2007] to protest United Nations proposals that they say the fall well short of the majority's desires for an independent Kosovo.

In confronting the earlier demonstration, the UN police, using rubber bullets, killed two protesters. Fears that the demonstration Saturday [3 March 2007] could turn violent did not materialize, though, as both protesters and heavily armed ethnic Albanian riot police kept their distance from one another.

Amid shouts of "UN out," thousands of people, mainly young men, filed through the city, led by Vetevendosja, an activist group that appears to be becoming the focal point for ethnic Albanian frustrations in Kosovo, which remains deeply divided. The vast majority of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian politicians say they support the UN's plans.

According to the plans, announced in early February by Martti Ahtisaari, the UN's chief negotiator for the region, Kosovo may soon be allowed the elements of statehood: its own flag, a constitution, an army and the right to apply for membership in international institutions. It would still, however, be placed under substantial international supervision under a mission led by the European Union, replacing the UN mission that governs Kosovo, which is still formally a province of Serbia.

The United Nations assumed responsibility for Kosovo in June 1999 after Serbian security forces accused of committing widespread atrocities during a conflict with ethnic Albanian guerrillas were forced to leave through a bombing campaign led by NATO.

Announcement of the latest settlement was delayed by several months, and Russia has suggested that it might not support the plan in the UN Security Council. The resulting uncertainty has caused growing tensions that the United Nations has struggled to contain even as Vetevendosja, whose name means "self-determination," seems to have been gathering growing numbers of supporters.

According to leaders of the protest Saturday, Ahtisaari's proposals are merely a ruse to sustain foreign domination of province and give unacceptable rights to the Serb minority.

"We are hostages of Serbia; we are hostages of just 5 percent of the population," Glauk Konsjufca, one of Vetevendosja's leaders, said in addressing supporters gathered around a jeep decked with loudspeakers. Konsjufca accused members of Kosovo's government, which itself is dominated by ethnic Albanians, of selling out by supporting the UN's proposals.

While not a political party, Vetevendosja has given voice to many ethnic Albanian Kosovars who have tired of international supervision.

"I am fed up with the way the international community is treating us," said Perparim Rama, a 31-year-old architect who took part in the demonstration. "Initially, the United Nations did a great job, but the whole process has been prolonged."

Most people, he said, are increasingly hostile to the UN mission that many Albanians he said see as self-serving.

"UN employees sits on a different level," he said. "You see that in salary differences. They basically are not in touch with the population. Here the economy is going down and United Nations employees are traveling to Greece every weekend for breaks."