May 11, 2007 - 19:58 AMT
Kosovo to become independent by end of month: U.S.
Kosovo could be granted independence from Serbia by the end of the month, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said Friday.

"We will be circulating today with our European allies a resolution in the Security Council that we believe will lead to the independence of Kosovo by the end of this month," Burns told journalists in the Croatian capital Zagreb.

"The United States is strongly supporting the independence of Kosovo."

"As Kosovo becomes independent we Americans want to remain friend with Serbia and we want to have good relationship with Serbia hopefully without the presence of the Radical party in the Serbian government and Serbian parliament," he stressed, Croatian media reports.