EU must act on Kosovo without U.N.: think-tank | World | Reuters

 

The group warns that Kosovo leaders will be under huge internal pressure to declare independence before 2008 and ask the U.N. mission in charge since the 1998-99 war to leave.

"If they act and are not supported, Kosovo would fracture: Serbia reclaiming the land pocket north of the Ibar River, Serbs elsewhere in Kosovo fleeing, and eight years of internationally guided institution-building lost."

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