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Kosovo poised to declare independence on February 17 - report

Fri, Feb 15 2008 19:09 CET

byElena Koinova

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Kosovo poised to declare independence on February 17 - report

Kosovo will declare independence on February 17 2008 at 5pm local time, Kosovo government officials said minutes before an official news conference held prime minister Hashim Thaci, mediapool.bg quoted a Reuters report as saying.

Thaci himself, however, refrained from giving away the timing, saying only that independence would be declared "within days".

At the same time, Russia announced that if Kosovo gained international recognition, it would resort to a change of policy toward secessionist Georgian regions, although it refused to say whether that would result in outright recognition of their independence.

The US and most EU member states are expected to swiftly recognise Kosovo, despite resistance from Belgrade and Moscow.

Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremic said Belgrade would refrain from using force to stop the secession of its southern province, but also warned that this precedent would trigger a chain of separatist moves across the world.

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