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| | Balkan Choice |
 | | Working on meeting governance standards set by the UN—with the strong input of a Contact Group including the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, Italy and Germany—the government under Prime Minister Agim Ceku, once a feared Albanian underground military chief, has made progress. |
 | | Ahtisaari yesterday put the issues and options before the Serbian and Kosovo presidents and prime ministers. |
 | | Russia is trying to set down a marker, unacceptable to the West, that if Serbia is forced to give up a former province, Georgia can be made to suffer similar provincial surgery, even if no historical parallel exists. |
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