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The Kosovars reply that this is a constitutional question, not an issue of international law, so the court has no business opining on it.

The irony is that, even if the court were to find against the Kosovars, Serbia would be quite unable to absorb 2m hostile Albanians.

In the next few weeks Serbs and Kosovars seem likely to be asked to talk again.

She said, "Why don't you advise the Kosovars? Why don't you advise their government on their diplomacy? "

The agreement does not recognise Kosovo as a state, complained Kosovars.

And just as Kosovars found their saviours in American planes, Abkhazians sided with Russia to oppose Georgia.

At least, despite menacing words from some former guerrillas, Kosovars are not reaching for their Kalashnikovs.

There was this whole fancy diplomatic system, this negotiation process about the future of Kosovo, and the Kosovars weren't part of it.

Kosovars watch television in Albanian but enter the Yugosphere when they trade with Serbia or go on holiday in Montenegro.

If, as seems likely, the resolution of Kosovo's future is delayed again, the anger of ordinary Kosovars could be felt quite soon.

It has accused Mr Marty of working on behalf of Serbia, a claim many Kosovars will believe.

Three years after the fighting stopped in Bosnia, Serbia's leader, Slobodan Milosevic, expelled as many as one million Kosovars.

Paradoxically, it was Clinton himself who urged Kosovars to build a multiethnic country.

Few people have been as attacked and oppressed as the Kosovars.

Some stereotypes widely believed and repeated about Kosovars abroad are merely racist.

Nationals of the western Balkans (bar Kosovars) can get short-stay visa waivers to enter Schengen.

There is a debate about Kosovo. But it is not between Serbs and Kosovars, nor even between Russians and Americans.

Kosovars are now the only people in the Balkans without this.

Giddy Kosovars danced in the streets when they heard of the endorsements.

This week Albania and Bosnia joined them, so only Kosovars still need visas.

Some Kosovars may wonder why so few still merit such special treatment.

Not so the Kosovars, who have yet to start working on the issue with the EU.

Some 90% of its 2m people are ethnic Albanians (Kosovars) who want independence.

The odds are against them, because the draft calls on Serbs and Kosovars to talk again for 120 days while the EU mission takes over.