A vision for Kosovo's future
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A UN envoy stopped short of recommending the full independence sought by the province's ethnic Albanian majority.
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WIESBADEN, Germany  - European Union and NATO defense chiefs on Thursday mapped out plans for steering the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo through a tense period while ensuring a future exit strategy for their armies.
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BELGRADE/PRISTINA - U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari unveiled a plan on Friday to set Serbia's Kosovo province on a path to independence, an outcome which Kosovo's majority ...Comment
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"We have seen what happened in former Yugoslavia when the European Union did not take things in hand."  European Union leaders, worried that Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc at a summit on Friday. via Reuters
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Serbia'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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A U.N. envoy on Friday unveiled a long-awaited plan for Kosovo, a proposal recommending internationally supervised statehood for the contested province where separatists fought a bloody war with Serbia in the ...Comment
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Kosovo was poised to become the world's newest state on Sunday, albeit under the guidance of the European Union and the United States, as it prepared to declare independence from Serbia.
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BELGRADE, Dec 26 (IPS) - As the European Union (EU) drops boundaries between  its countries and its people, Serbia plans to introduce new ones  against its disputed southern province, Kosovo.
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TENSE ELECTIONS: Elections to fill Kosovo's 120-seat assembly on Saturday will test the depth of the province's ethnic divide and international attempts at reconciliation.
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United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari today presented Serbian President Boris Tadic with a compromise proposal on the status of Kosovo, where the ethnic Albanian majority is seeking independence from Serbia.Comment
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A U.N. plan to formalize Kosovo's secession may help the hard-liners in Serbia
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BELGRADE, Feb 14 (IPS) - The southern Serbian province of Kosovo is  preparing to proclaim independence this Sunday or Monday to  become the newest state to emerge from former Yugoslavia.
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Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo can tell tales of property theft and other misdeeds stretching back decades, if not centuries. The U.N. is trying to right the most recent of those wrongs.
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Kosovo's general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N. protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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BELGRADE -- Suspense gripped Serbia yesterday, a day before the unveiling of a UN proposal for Kosovo's future -- a historic plan that officials say will map out a road to conditional nationhood for the bitterly contested province.
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In countries worried about their own secessionist movements, the response to Kosovo's declaration of independence has been wary
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As President Bush begins a new year's effort to rebuild ties with European allies, one good place to start would be in the heart of Europe, with Kosovo.