Around 100 members of the League of Polish Families (LPR) have staged a demonstation outside the embassy of Serbia in Warsaw.
"We are witnessing Serbia's partition,” activists from the League of Polish Families commented about Poland's recognition of Kosovo. Protesters waved Polish and Serbian flags, manifesting their support with chants.
Robert Wyrostkiewicz, one of the organizers, explained that the protest is a way of expressing opposition to the EU and the US intereference with the events occuring in Serbia, a sovereign state.
Protesters included Miroslaw Orzechowski, former deputy minister of education, who said that recognizing Kosovo may cause the Balkan conflict to flare up anew.
The participants in the demonstration made an appeal to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to acknowledge the actions of the Kosovar authorities as illegal and sue them at the UN.
At a meeting earlier today, the Polish government recognized Kosovo as an independent state.
The League of Polish families was part of the ruling coalition which collapsed last autumn leading to a general election in which they failed to gain 5 percent of the popular vote and no longer have any seats in the Sejm, Polish parliament. (mn)