Kosovo feted 15 years of independence with a parade of soldiers and police cheered by thousands in Pristina on Friday with an eye to a normalisation deal with Serbia, key to stability in a region still scarred from ethnic wars in the 1990s.
Serbia, whose forces were driven out of ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo by NATO bombing to stop a brutal security crackdown by Belgrade, still deems its former southern province an integral part of its territory.
The office of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced that Kurti would meet Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Brussels on Feb. 27 to discuss the 11-point plan. Belgrade and Pristina have both accepted the EU plan in principle, though said further negotiations would be needed. Resolving their volatile stand-off is a major condition for Serbia and Kosovo to progress towards EU membership.
Ali Reshani, 73, among thousands of Kosovars gathering in Pristina's streets for the Feb. 17 independence anniversary, told Reuters: "Thanks to God we have our own police, we also have our own army. I expect better days."The anniversary was ignored in the Serb-majority town of North Mitrovica in north Kosovo.
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