Bush says Kosovo will get independence
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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 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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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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Europe's major powers and the United  States said on Monday they recognized Kosovo's new  independence, as Serbs reacted with anger and some states  warned that its secession from Serbia set a dangerous  precedent.
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An independent Palestinian state could be established within four years, President George W Bush says.
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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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President Bush said the election of a new Palestinian Authority president Sunday is a key step toward the establishment of an independent and peaceful Palestinian state.
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Kosovo appealed to the United  States on Monday to set a date for the province&#39;s independence  from Serbia, saying Russia had blocked its path through the  United Nations.
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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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President Bush says the time has come to bring the issue of Kosovo's independence "to its head", during talks in Italy.
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In a phone call yesterday initiated by Vladimir Putin, President Bush and the Russian leader agreed to continue discussing Moscow's concerns about independence for Kosovo, a sensitive subject expected to come up next month in the U.N. Security Council.
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Key facts about Kosovo, which is preparing to declare independence from Serbia:
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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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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon  expressed hope on Monday that meetings between U.S. President  George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin would lead  to a breakthrough over Kosovo&#39;s independence.
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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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President Bush said on Friday he saw  a "great chance" of achieving an independent Palestinian state  and pledged to work with European leaders toward that goal.
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Kosovo will get independence from Serbia  &quot;one way or another&quot; despite Russia&#39;s objections at the United  Nations, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on  Thursday.