Visiting NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer condemned Monday in Pristina last week's violence in Kosovo, the Tanjug News Agency reported. 

Scheffer condemned Kosovo Albanian leaders and said the international community will do everything it can to find a just solution for the people in Kosovo, Goran Bogdanovic, the only Serbian minister in the Kosovo government, who attended the meeting with Scheffer, was quoted as saying.

During the meeting, Scheffer said the violence orchestrated by extremist factions in the Albanian community is unacceptable.

The ethnic clashes in the Serbian province of Kosovo have left at least 28 people dead and more than 850 injured, over 30 Orthodox churches and monasteries were also destroyed by ethnic Albanians extremists.

During his one-day visit, Scheffer met with ethnic Albanian leaders and local Serbian representatives, and discussed last week's violence in Kosovo. 

Kosovo, a province of Serbia of Serbia and Montenegro, has been under UN administration since June 1999 following 11 weeks of NATO bombing.

The NATO-led Multinational Peacekeeping force was deployed in the province since Serbian forces were driven out in June 1999. After last week's ethnic clashes, NATO rushed some 2,000 reinforcements to safeguard security in the province. 

(Xinhua News Agency March 23, 2004)