PRISTINA, Kosovo (AFP)--Some 5,000 Kosovars took to the streets Wednesday as tensions mounted over an agreed U.N.-Serbia plan to deploy a European Union mission in the disputed Balkan territory. 

"U.N. Proposes War," read one of the large white banners brandished by the demonstrators in downtown Pristina, reflecting Kosovo Albanians' anger about intentions to implement the plan within weeks. 
  
With the agreement, "about one third of (Kosovo's) territory will be...put under the control of Serbia," said a statement of the 15 non-governmental groups that organized the demonstration. 
  
"The goal of Serbia is partition, and this is reflected by the six points" of the plan, said one organizer, Igballe Rugova, referring to the contentious agreement between Belgrade and the U.N. about the E.U. mission, EULEX. 

"We do not want to be an experiment any more. Kosovo is a sovereign state," said Rugova of the Kosova Women's Network, a non-governmental organization. 

Ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo seceded from Serbia in February and 52 nations, including the U.S. and most of the 27-member E.U. bloc, have since recognized its independence. 

Belgrade, which opposes Kosovo's independence, was initially against the deployment of EULEX - a 2,000-strong police, justice and customs mission. 

But it agreed to the deployment after the U.N. and E.U. accepted its demands as part of the six-point plan. 

The plan includes agreements that the E.U. mission view Kosovo's status as neutral, and that it be approved by the U.N. Security Council in accordance with a pre-existing resolution. 

Kosovo's leaders reject the plan despite the urgings of the U.S., arguing it would breach the newly independent state's constitution, sovereignty, and territorial integrity