Kosovo
This report from the International Crisis Group argues that as Kosovo comes closer to achieving statehood, more planning for Kosovo's security is required. The report argues that a key component of post-independence security structures should be an army built in part upon the Kosovo Protection Corps, oriented to international missions like peacekeeping and subject in the first years to strict NATO control and limitations on its size and capabilities.
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Kosovo's independence is in view, experts say, after years of war, occupation, ethnic infighting, and protracted negotiations. Final settlement talks are aiming to close a chapter on one of Europe's most intractable disputes.
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Given the atrocities they have suffered in the past and the autonomy they are enjoying now, Kosovo's Albanians will never accept continued Serbian sovereignty. The time has come to give them what they want -- independence.
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