Bush says Kosovo to be independent, delights Albania
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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 then the West would act.
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Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav  Kostunica warned the United States and Kosovo Albanians on  Saturday that they would be responsible for devastating  violence if they &quot;snatch&quot; Kosovo and declare it independent.
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President Bush welcomes Kosovo's independence as "correct", as Serbia withdraws its envoy to Washington.
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Kosovo Albanians will proclaim independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.
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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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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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PRISTINA, Feb 18 (IPS) - Kosovo has declared independence from Serbia amid  ecstatic celebrations in capital Pristina â and questions over  international recognition.
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Kosovo told Washington on Monday  that it did not plan to unilaterally declare independence from  Serbia in November, senior officials from the United States and  Kosovo said.
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Kosovo is within hours of unilaterally declaring its independence from Serbia with US and European support, marking a historic turning point in the volatile Balkans.
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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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Kosovo is ready to offer  Serbia a treaty guaranteeing cordial relations after the  breakaway province becomes independent, Kosovo&#39;s ethnic  Albanian leaders said on Monday.
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U.S. President George W. Bush on Sunday  visits Albania which hopes to receive reassuring words on  backing for its NATO membership bid and the future independence  of breakaway Kosovo.
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Albania's prime minister on  Tuesday called for independence for Kosovo, a U.N.-governed  province of Serbia with a mostly ethnic Albanian population.
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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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President Bush said Sunday it's in Kosovo's interest to be aligned with Europe, and that its status must resolved in order for the Balkans to be stable.
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Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim  Thaci said on Friday about 100 countries were ready to  recognize the province's independence from Serbia as soon as it  was declared.
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President George W. Bush arrived in Albania on Sunday for the first visit by a U.S. leader to the Balkan republic, once a byword for hardline communist isolationism but now a staunch ally of America.