Key facts about Kosovo
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Key facts about Kosovo, which is preparing to declare independence from Serbia:
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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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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 18 -- President Bush hailed the newly independent Kosovo and officially recognized it as a state and a "close friend" on Monday, expressing strong support for the new Balkans nation even as he rebuffed protests by Serbia and Russia.
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Serbia and Montenegro has reiterated that Serbia and Montenegro considered status of Kosovo within its state framework.
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Kosovo is prepared to make a  unilateral declaration of independence and is pressing the West  to go ahead with a vote at the United Nations even if Russia is  likely to veto the proposition.
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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.
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MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro  - From the  mountainous Serbian border, the River Ibar flows gently into  Kosovo and slices through the town of Mitrovica.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - 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, Feb 20 (IPS) - As the Albanian-dominated southern Serb province   Kosovo inches towards independence,  nationalist Serbs are  raising an economic obstacle to back the political  resistance to   independence -- an accounting of the money spent to develop  Kosovo all  these years.
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A U.N. envoy on Friday unveiled a plan for the bitterly contested province of Kosovo, its first tentative step toward eventual statehood.Comment
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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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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo's prime-minister designate Hashim Thaci sealed agreement on Monday on a governing coalition expected to lead the Albanian-majority province to independence from Serbia early this year.
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Kosovo on Saturday inched closer to its historic declaration of independence, with a growing sense of excitement among its people and the European Union launching a police and judicial mission to smoothen the birth of the world's newest state.
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On the eve of Kosovo's declaration of independence, can it escape its legacy of violence?
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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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PRISTINA, Serbia  - 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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Kosovo PM Agim Ceku with Macedonia PM Nikola Gruevski Kosovo's prime minister said Tuesday he is hopeful that talks now under way at the United Nations will soon lead to independence for the Serbian province ...