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Pride in Kosovo’s political independence can live alongside people’s self-identification as Albanians. In the end, it might not matter that much.
The first decade of Kosovo’s independence was filled with moments of the ground shifting beneath our feet - easy to forget in our earthquake-prone country, but they restore our dignity nevertheless.
Ten years later, most Kosovars are not free of all the things—poverty, corruption, isolation, lack of education and health care—that had made life miserable in pre-independence days.
We will spend the next 10 years working to repair the damage that has been done over the last 10 years.
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli announced a new recognition from the African island country during a meeting of Francophone foreign ministers in Paris.