EU nations back police mission to Kosovo
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The European Union gave the final approval Saturday for the deployment of a 1,800-member policing and administration mission in Kosovo.
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The European Union plans to open a mission in Iraq after the country&#39;s first free elections slated for January, to help train police, legal officials and administrators, EU foreign ministers said yesterday.
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The EU's biggest four countries are pushing to impose and oversee independence in Kosovo without a fresh UN mandate, risking the ire of Russia and Serbia
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The Albanian parliament passed a resolution Thursday to allow the country to join a peacekeeping mission of the European Union (EU) in Bosnia, which takes over responsibilities from NATO in December.
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The European Union agreed on Monday to  send a mission to help train local police in Afghanistan, whose  government is struggling with an Islamist insurgency.
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The Security Council gave the European Union and the U.N. the green light Monday to prepare for a military and police deployment to help protect civilians in Chad and the Central African Republic caught in the spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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The European Union took over a mission to train Afghanistan&#39;s police force in a ceremony overshadowed by the killing of 35 people in a suicide attack on a police bus hours earlier.
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Five European Union (EU) member states signed a declaration of intent here Friday for a European gendarmerie force, marking a new milestone in the bloc&#39;s road to independent defense building.
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Police in Kosovo raided the  ethnic Albanian political movement behind a weekend protest  that ended in clashes with police and the deaths of two  protesters, United Nations police said on Monday.
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The European Union approved the launch of a 2,000-strong police and justice mission for Kosovo on Saturday, a day before the breakaway province is expected to make a Western-backed declaration of independence from Serbia.
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Protesting Serbs in Kosovo  warned the European Union on Tuesday they would reject its  planned supervisory mission if the Albanian majority declares  independence from Serbia early next year.
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European Union leaders are set to  offer Serbia a fast track to candidacy for membership in the  bloc and pledge to step up preparations for a police mission to  stabilize Kosovo, a draft statement for Friday's EU summit  said.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - Protesting Serbs in Kosovo warned the European Union on Tuesday they would reject its planned supervisory mission if the Albanian majority declares independence from Serbia early next year.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Police in Kosovo raided the ethnic Albanian political movement behind a weekend protest that ended in clashes with police and the deaths of two protesters, United Nations police said on Monday.
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The European Union is set to complete  authorization of a big supervisory mission in Kosovo this week,  just before the territory is expected to declare independence  from Serbia, diplomats and EU officials said.
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NOORDWIJK (The Netherlands) - Five European states yesterday agreed to a French proposal to set up a joint military-run gendarmerie force able to be deployed to crisis situations worldwide.
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The UN mission in Kosovo has issued a statement saying it was satisfied with yesterday's meeting between Belgrade and Pristina officials in Vienna.