Bush says Kosovo to be independent, delights Albania
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U.S. President George W. Bush said on Sunday the United Nations should grant independence quickly to the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, and if Russia continued to block it then the West would act.
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President George W. Bush said on Sunday  the United Nations should grant independence quickly to the  breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, and if Russia continued  to block it the West would act.
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President Bush stopped short of a formal recognition of independence in his comments on Monday.
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Kosovo Albanians told the West on  Friday to stop wasting time trying to win over Russia to the  province&#39;s secession from Serbia and prepare for a unilateral  declaration of independence.
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Kosovo Albanian newspapers are delighted that President Bush supports Kosovan independence.
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Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova has said his pro-independence party has won Saturday's general elections.
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The U.S. and major European powers recognized Kosovo on Monday, a day after the province's ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence from Serbia. Giddy Kosovars danced in the streets when they heard of the endorsements.
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His poll numbers may be in the tank at home, but when he zipped through Albania today, President Bush was received like a rock star.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The last time Kosovo declared independence in 1990 it went unrecognized and ignored. When it splits from Serbia this weekend, it will have the support of the West, which sees no way back.
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"We've got to get you out of here," President George W. Bush told the U.S. Army commander in Kosovo in 2001.
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Serbia&#39;s breakaway province of Kosovo  will be independent one way or the other so the United Nations  should hurry up and pass a formal resolution next month, U.N.  envoy Martti Ahtisaari was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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The U.N. deal gives the Albanian population considerable independence, though with a dose of international supervision.
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President George W. Bush on Friday promised to mobilise international efforts to create an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian state at peace with Israel in the wake of the death of Yasser Arafat.
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President George W. Bush got a warm welcome on Sunday in Albania on the first visit by a U.S. leader to a Balkan state once closed to the West but now a firm ally and enthusiastic supporter of the United States.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Ethnic Albanian former guerrilla Hashim Thaci was elected prime minister of Kosovo on Wednesday and vowed the breakaway province would declare independence from Serbia within weeks.
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Kosovo will get independence from Serbia "one way or another" despite Russia's objections at the United Nations, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
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BERLIN - The United States and the European Union will recognize Kosovo if the Balkan province declares independence from Serbia in early December when last-ditch negotiations end, senior US and European officials said yesterday.