Kosovo's PM in independence nod
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Kosovo's prime minister gives the clearest indication yet that independence from Serbia will be declared on Sunday.
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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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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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U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday justified recognizing Kosovo as an independent nation, saying that doing so will bring peace to a region scarred by war.
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President George W. Bush  recognized on Tuesday the independence of Kosovo from Serbia  and said it would bring peace to the Balkans.
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President Bush welcomes Kosovo's independence as "correct", as Serbia withdraws its envoy to Washington.
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STRASBOURG, France  - 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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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia with Western backing the weekend after the February 3 Serbian presidential election if the nationalist candidate wins, political sources said on Wednesday.
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Kosovo Albanian newspapers are delighted that President Bush supports Kosovan independence.
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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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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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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku said on Friday the province should declare unilateral independence from Serbia on November 28, arguing that a Western bid to steer its secession through the United Nations had failed.
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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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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  Albanians quickly applauded but Belgrade rejected.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo is ready to offer Serbia a treaty guaranteeing cordial relations after the breakaway province becomes independent, Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders said on Monday.
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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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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Ethnic Albanian ex-guerrilla Hashim Thaci was elected prime minister of Kosovo on Wednesday and vowed the breakaway province would declare independence from Serbia within weeks.