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Serbia’s prime minister and Kosovo’s president got permission to present their contrary views on the future status of Kosovo to the U.N. Security Council next week.

Vienna: Arigona Zogaj, who went underground to avoid forcing out to Serbia’s restive Kosovo province, will be permitted to complete the school year in Austria, said the Interior Minister Guenther Platter.

According to a statement from a leader’s summit held in Brussels, Serbia is to be offered a “fast track” to European Union membership.
The European leaders also pledged to run the preparations fast for a police mission to stabilize Kosovo.
At the summit, EU leaders claim the negotiations on the breakaway Serbian province have been exhausted, the [...]

Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown will focus on foreign policy on his first, short, official visit to Brussels.Brown and his foreign secretary David Miliband will talk about Kosovo, Iran, globalization and immigration with the other EU leaders.
For the first time, the formal agenda for the EU summit is almost independent of complex discussions as the [...]

Kosovo officials have claimed that Kosovo’s independence declaration will come in first few months of 2008.
Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, 56, said that no date has been fixed, but, he insists, “The process needs to come to an end as soon as possible.”
The declaration will come once the ethnic-Albanian majority province has fully prepared its legislation [...]

Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown will focus on foreign policy on his first, short, official visit to Brussels.