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[Pstark]

Excitement as Kosovo independence confirmed for Sunday



February 17, 2008 - 8:38AM


Kosovo will declare independence on Sunday amid growing excitement among its
ethnic Albanians, anger from its Serbs, and the launch of an EU mission to
ease the birth of the world's newest state.

"Tomorrow will be a day of calm, of understanding and of state engagements
for the implementation of the will of the citizens of Kosovo," Prime
Minister Hashim Thaci said Saturday in reference to the breakaway ethnic
Albanian majority.

Expectations of a Sunday declaration of independence have been running high
for several days -- but Thaci's comments marked the first top-level
confirmation that the long-awaited break with Serbia would come this
weekend.

Pete Stark  K4OM
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Huntington, WV