Kosovo to test Slovenia leaders
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The small ex-Yugoslav state of Slovenia faces a big Balkan challenge in its six-month EU presidency.
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European Union foreign ministers sought Friday to present a united front over the status of Kosovo, playing down divisions over how much autonomy the Serbian province should win.
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Kosovo's former prime minister and two other alleged rebel fighters from the province's brutal conflict with Serbia go on trial Monday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal charged with a campaign of ethnic cleansing aimed at Serbs and their supporters.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 25 (IPS) - Top European Union politicians stated their  determination to maintain a unified stance on Kosovo this week as  they analysed the latest twists in the saga of the disputed  territory.
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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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EU leaders, fresh from signing a treaty that overhauls the way the bloc runs, will strive Friday to present a united front on Kosovo as the Serbian province prepares to move to independence.
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TENSE ELECTIONS: Elections to fill Kosovo's 120-seat assembly on Saturday will test the depth of the province's ethnic divide and international attempts at reconciliation.
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The Serbian minister for Kosovo said Friday that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on Feb. 17
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Tiny Slovenia becomes the first of 12 newcomers to take over the rotating presidency of the European Union Tuesday, a big psychological boost to a nation that gained independence from the ruins of the former Yugoslavia 16 years ago.
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Final talks between Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders over Kosovo's future begin on Wednesday.
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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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Serbia's threat to turn its back on  EU membership over Kosovo probably has more to do with  electioneering than political reality, incoming EU president  Slovenia said on Thursday.
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European Union leaders, worried that Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc at a summit on Friday.
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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, which political sources say could be declared on Feb 17.
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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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The Serb parliament is expected to adopt a resolution on Wednesday implicitly rejecting membership of the European Union and NATO if the West recognizes the independence of Kosovo.
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European Union leaders agreed on  Friday to send administrators and police to Kosovo ahead of an  expected declaration of independence from Serbia.