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Polling stations open in Kosovo election(video)

Other News Materials 17 November 2007 10:54 (UTC +04:00)

( Reuters ) - Polling stations opened in Kosovo on Saturday in a parliamentary election held ahead of a showdown with Serbia on the ethnic Albanian majority's demand for independence.

Whoever wins, the 1.5 million Albanians eligible to vote are sure to elect a government ready to declare an independent state. It could come within weeks of a mediators' report to the United Nations expected to say no agreement can be reached.

Prime Minister Agim Ceku, a former separatist guerrilla leader, is stepping down, and Kosovo's 6 percent Serb minority is boycotting the ballot at the demand of the Serbian government, which bitterly opposes secession.

Polling stations close at 1800 GMT.

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