Welcome. A new country is born, The Republic of Kosovo. President Fatmir Sejdiu sent letters to 192 countries seeking formal recognition of independence, and suspense gripped its citizens awaited backing from the U.S. and European nations. The proclamation sent thousands of jubilant kosovars into the streets, where they waved red-and-black Albanian flags, fired guns and fireworks into the air and danced. One couple named their newborn daughter Pavarsie (independence). Kosovo had formally remained a part of Serbia even though it has been administered by the U.N. and NATO since 1999, when NATO airstrikes ended Serbia ruling. Ninety percent of Kosovo’s 2 million people are ethnic Albanian — most of them secular Muslims — and they don´t want to stay joined to Christian Orthodox Serbia. The 192 letters included one to Serbia, but government would never accept Kosovo’s statehood. Was not enough one bombing to understand that free people can´t be chained, forever?.
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