(Adds Albanian reaction, rewrites throughout) By Fatos Bytyci and Benet Koleka PRISTINA/TIRANA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Kosovo's prime minister again rejected a new United Nations plan on Tuesday for a European Union justice police mission and neighbouring Albania warned it could lead to a "soft" partition of the country. Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's reaction came a day after U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Kosovo and Serbia would cooperate on the EU mission. Kosovo's objection on Tuesday, as before, has to do with an amended six-point plan which Serbia has accepted. "The six point plan, for the institutions of Kosovo and for the people of Kosovo, was, is and will be unacceptable and inapplicable," Thaci told Kosovo's parliament. In February, the EU agreed to send the EULEX mission to oversee police, judiciary and customs, but its deployment had been delayed by opposition from Serbia which does not recognise the secession of its former province. Police, customs officers and judges in the Serb-run areas will be under the U.N. umbrella, while their Albanian counterparts will work with EULEX. Kosovo's population is 90 percent ethnic Albanian. The remaining 120,000 Serbs refuse to cooperate with Albanian-run institutions. In Albania, Prime Minister Sali Berisha welcomed the EULEX deployment across the entire country but said it had some serious problems. "In some aspects, it creates the impression, the perception, that it favours a soft partition of Kosovo, which I do not think is the intention of Secretary General nor the European Union," Berisha told reporters. "But such a perception is a real problem," he added. Albania is a supporter of neighbouring Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in February and was recognised by the United States and the major EU powers but not Russia. Kosovo has accepted the idea of EULEX deployment but rejected Ban's plan as violating its constitution and resulting in a de facto partition of Europe's youngest state. "We have given support, invited and welcomed the EULEX mission and will cooperate closely with it. EULEX will be deployed in Kosovo according to Kosovo's constitution," said Thaci. Albania's Berisha said he hoped the U.N. Security Council would find a compromise between two plans, one favoured by Serbia and another proposed by Kosovo. "A project whose six points are fully backed by one side and rejected by the other cannot be stable," Berisha said. (Editing by Adam Tanner and Richard Balmforth)
Former political prisoners of the communist regime protest in front of the government building in Tirana October 16, 2008. The victims of Albania's late Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha picked his 100th ...
