EU withdrawal of staff ‘will not divide Kosovo’

Pieter Feith, the European Union envoy supervising Kosovo in its first years of independence, said the withdrawal of EU preparatory staff from the tense Serb-dominated northern area following the unilateral declaration of independence in Kosovo, 17 February 2008, would not reinforce the week-old state’s partition along ethnic lines.

Russia Today: 23.2.08: Tensions rise as Serbs push into Kosovo http://rt.com/news/

BBC News, 23.2.08: Serbs enact plan to sabotage Kosovo http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7260283.stm

Serbia: Government: Press Release, 23.2.08: Government to make all efforts to prevent violence in struggle for Kosovo-Metohija http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?id=43538

http://www.srbija.gov.rs/kosovo-metohija/index.php?id=43376 http://www.srbija.gov.rs/kosovo-metohija/index.php?id=43376

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