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| Kosovo gets pro-independence PM | Kosovo gets pro-independence PM |
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| Kosovo's parliament has approved a coalition government led by Hashim Thaci, a former guerrilla leader who is pushing for independence from Serbia. | Kosovo's parliament has approved a coalition government led by Hashim Thaci, a former guerrilla leader who is pushing for independence from Serbia. |
| Mr Thaci, 39, has pledged to steer the UN-administered province to formal independence in the next few weeks. | Mr Thaci, 39, has pledged to steer the UN-administered province to formal independence in the next few weeks. |
| Parliament voted 85-22 to back Mr Thaci's Democratic Party in a coalition with the Democratic League of Kosovo. | Parliament voted 85-22 to back Mr Thaci's Democratic Party in a coalition with the Democratic League of Kosovo. |
| The independence plan has support from most EU states and the US, but Serbia and Russia strongly oppose it. | The independence plan has support from most EU states and the US, but Serbia and Russia strongly oppose it. |
| In November 2007 Serbian and Kosovo Albanian leaders failed to reach agreement at talks aimed at settling Kosovo's status. | |
| Kosovo has been run by the UN since 1999, when a Nato bombing campaign drove Serb forces out. They had cracked down violently on pro-independence ethnic Albanians, some of whom had taken up arms. | |
| Ethnic Albanians form about 90% of Kosovo's population. | |
| Mr Thaci's Democratic Party emerged out of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the rebel group that fought Serb forces in the 1990s. |