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/ 18 February 2008

Main EU states recognise Kosovo

Europe’s biggest states recognised the independence of Kosovo on Monday, ending hours of suspense after Prime Minister Hashim Thaci assured his new republic that Western recognition would come ”any minute”. France was first to announce its move after a European Union foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels.

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/ 18 February 2008

Kosovo awaits recognition, and Serb challenge

Kosovo looked forward on Monday to recognition by the Western powers who went to war to save its Albanian majority, but Russia served notice the new state will never be forced on its Serb allies in the territory. Fireworks brought to a close a day of celebration in the Kosovo capital Pristina, where Parliament adopted a declaration of independence from Serbia.

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/ 22 January 2006

Kosovo leader dies of lung cancer

Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, the ethnic Albanian leader who came to epitomise the province’s decades-long struggle for total independence from Serbia, has died without seeing his dream fulfilled. He was 61. Rugova’s death from lung cancer on Saturday leaves a vacuum in the fraction-ridden political scene at a crucial time.

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/ 15 March 2005

Kosovo president survives roadside bomb

Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova survived without injury on Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded as he rode to meet visiting European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, police said. An explosive device planted in a garbage can on the street was detonated as Rugova’s convoy passed on its way to the meeting.

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