EU set to approve Kosovo stability mission

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Series Details 25.1.08
Publication Date 25/01/2008
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European Union foreign ministers are expected to give formal approval on the 28 Jsnusry 2008 for a 1,800-strong mission of policemen, judges, prosecutors and customs officials to stabilise Kosovo after the province officially secedes from Serbia. The EU plans to send a first batch of law and order officials even before Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leaders declare independence, a step that some EU diplomats predict will happen in March 2008. All 27 EU member-states except Cyprus support the prompt despatch of the mission, but Cyprus is expected to object rather than block the decision.

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