Albania's aggression

ROME, March 5 (Tanjug)- Hundreds of young ethnic-Albanians living in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija have undergone secret training for terrorist operations at military camps in Labenot and Surel in Albania through the end of January this year, the Rome daily La Repubblica said Thursday.

The daily said that the fact was "denied by the Albanian government."

It noted that "it is certain that relations between representatives of the ethnic-Albanian guerrilla in Kosovo and the separatist movement are very close, since they both hope for a Greater Albania."

The Milan Corriere della Sera focused on the difficult economic situation in Serbia's southern province and underscored that the poverty there was "a result of the ethnic-Albanian economic model of a closed circle."

"Thousands of young ethnic Albanians are jobless but they, at the same time, reject to work in state-owned firms. They instead resort to shady dealings, mostly arms and cigarette trafficking," the Milan daily said.