Kosovo tries to launch independence softly
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Despite Serbia's ire, province may declare independence as soon as Sunday.
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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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United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari on Friday avoided any pronouncement on the future sovereignty of Kosovo, but handed Serbia a plan that sets its breakaway province firmly on a path to independence.Comment
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The prime minister of Kosovo, Agim Ceku, today said the province would make a unilateral declaration of independence on November 28, arguing attempts to secede from Serbia through the UN had failed.
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Tiny Kosovo Â poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-Western Â braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia, a decade after a war that killed 10,000 people and years of limbo under U.N. rule.
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The leaders of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority urged Serbia on Thursday to stop trying to block independence for the breakaway province and instead look to a future of friendly relations between two sovereign states.
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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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Russia may not come to outright blows with the West over Kosovo, but independence for the province seems sure to deepen the Cold War-style chill settling over Europe.
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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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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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Serbia is telling Serbs in Kosovo to ignore an Albanian declaration of independence early next year, raising the prospect of an ethnic partition of the breakaway province that the West has long ruled out.
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Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci tells reporters a declaration of independence is a matter of days away.
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For Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, a new U.N. proposal opens the door to their long-awaited dream of independence, while prompting Serbia's leaders to warn of secession.Comment
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Re-election of Boris Tadic as president of Serbia muddies waters for Kosovo's quest for independence
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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal  - European Union states will seek to maintain a common front over the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, amid growing concern that it will declare independence unilaterally.
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A U.N. plan to formalize Kosovo's secession may help the hard-liners in Serbia
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This week's vote could put Kosovo on the road to independence -- and further trouble