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Kosova citizens mourn the death of their president
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-01-22 09:58
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Kosovo citizen lights a candle in Kosovo's capital Pristina January 21,
2006. Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova died of lung cancer on Saturday,
leaving a leadership vacuum for ethnic Albanians on the eve of talks to
secure the independence from Serbia that he championed. A government
source in Kosovo said the funeral would take place on Wednesday, the day
the United Nations was due to begin direct negotiations between Belgrade
and Pristina to decide whether Kosovo's 90-percent ethnic Albanian
majority wins independence or remains part of Serbia as Belgrade
insists. [Reuters]
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