Kosovo: Ethnic Tensions and Nationalism
The Conflict
In 1999, NATO and the United Nations occupied Kosovo, a province in the former Yugoslavia, in order to protect the Muslim Albanian population from ...
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Kosovo
Long a center for competing imperial ambitions, Kosovo in the twentieth century endured a long and bloody process of transformation. Its history is one of subordination, ethnic conflict, and ec...
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Kosovo's leaders said Saturday that independence for their province is "not negotiable," even as they pledged to work with diplomats seeking common ground with Serbia on the territory's future.Envo...
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Suddenly, they're almost everywhere: NATO peacekeepers patrolling Kosovo in trucks and Humvees. The increased presence is intended to reassure, but it's rattling nerves as the breakaway province ge...
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Serbia's airwaves are filled with patriotic slogans such as "Every Serb is born with Kosovo in his heart," relentlessly drumming home the official line that as the nation's sacred heartland, the pr...
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Russia's foreign minister reiterated his country's opposition to a U.S.-backed plan granting independence to the breakaway province of Kosovo, and warned Thursday that imposing the solution is "abs...
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Serbian and ethnic Albanian negotiators remain deadlocked on the heart of a U.N. plan that would put the restive Serbian province of Kosovo on the road to eventual independence, a U.N. special envo...
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Kosovo's rival parties struck a power-sharing deal Monday to form a government that is expected to declare independence from Serbia this year.Former rebel leader Hashim Thaci said his Democratic Pa...
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European Union officials and diplomats in Belgium expect a U.N. mediator to recommend limited sovereignty for Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo that could eventually lead to full independence f...
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Kosovo's prime minister said Wednesday that the U.N. envoy leading talks on the Serbian province's future would recommend giving it independence when he presents his proposal to the U.N. Security C...
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Kosovo will unilaterally declare independence within days of a December deadline to wrap up talks if international negotiators fail to reach a deal on the status of the disputed province, its ethni...
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Belgrade (dpa) - Serbia on Thursday called on Kosovo Serbs not to
take part in upcoming parliamentary and local polls in the breakaway
province, in a move a local leader des...
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Kosovo: Ethnic Tensions and Nationalism
Kosovo
Envoys meet Kosovo leaders
