ters waved the red and black double-headed Eagle flag of Albania outside the EU's Council office, chanting slogans against Milosevic. The demonstration coincided with preparations by Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians to bury their dead after weekend clashes with Serbian police. At least 16 ethnic Albanians and four Serbian policemen died and riot police dispersed a protest demonstration by around 50,000 Albanians in the Kosovo capital Pristina with water cannon, tear gas and baton charges on Monday. In the Brussels protest, one banner depicted the Serbian leader offering a rose to the West while stabbing Kosovo with a bloody dagger. "I can't imagine that the international community would tolerate that a new escalation in the south Balkans would develop and would put that region into flames," said the EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Hans van den Broek. "That would directly affect us as well," he told reporters after talks with Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik. Van den Broek said the 15-member EU felt "very clearly that President Milosevic bears very great responsibility in this respect." "He continues to claim that Kosovo is an internal Serbian affair. Maybe he is right, but then he should take the initiative to have the dialogue and to seek a peaceful political solution with the Albanians," van den Broek said. The EU has stated repeatedly that it did not back demands for a separate republic in Kosovo. But it insists that Belgrade should restore to the province the political autonomy which Milosevic stripped away in 1989.