After declaring independence, Kosovo looks to cautious next steps
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President Bush hailed the controversial move, as the EU and UN met to form their responses.
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Kosovo Albanians will proclaim  independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in  the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia but cementing a bitter ethnic  frontline in the Balkans.
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Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci hints that a declaration of independence may be delayed, but not for how long.
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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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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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Kosovo is poised to become the world's newest state on Sunday amid growing excitement inside the province's ethnic Albanians but anxiety from Serbia and Russia.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - 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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A U.N. plan to formalize Kosovo's secession may help the hard-liners in Serbia
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PRISTINA, Serbia -- Kosovo took its first tentative steps yesterday on the road to becoming what would look very much like a sovereign nation: A UN envoy unveiled a blueprint for the future of the tense, ethnically divided Balkan province.
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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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Serbian President Boris Tadic warns of more conflict if Kosovo declares independence as expected later this month.
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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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Negotiations to determine whether Kosovo can be declared an independent state are still a year away.
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Serbia's minister for Kosovo suggested Saturday that the government will seek to keep control over Serb-populated areas after the predominantly ethnic Albanian province declares independence.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's  general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky  endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N.  protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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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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Kosovo's independence sets a dangerous precedent for other states with separatist movements, says Serbia.