Kosovo's charter enters into force
China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-16 07:37
Kosovo's constitution went into force yesterday, handing its ethnic Albanian government power after nine years of UN administration.
The charter - a milestone that comes four months after leaders declared independence from Serbia - gives the government in Pristina sole decision-making authority.
But it threatens to worsen ethnic tensions between Kosovo's Albanians and Serbs. Security in the divided northern town of Mitrovica was high a day after a gunman attacked a police station, wounding one officer.
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