KOSOVO TO BECOME INDEPENDENT BY END OF MONTH: U.S.

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.05.2007 18:58 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Kosovo could be granted independence from Serbia
by the end of the month, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns
said Friday.

"We will be circulating today with our European allies a resolution
in the Security Council that we believe will lead to the independence
of Kosovo by the end of this month," Burns told journalists in the
Croatian capital Zagreb.

"The United States is strongly supporting the independence of Kosovo."

"As Kosovo becomes independent we Americans want to remain friend with
Serbia and we want to have good relationship with Serbia hopefully
without the presence of the Radical party in the Serbian government
and Serbian parliament," he stressed, Croatian media reports.