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Switzerland's foreign minister visited Pristina on Friday to reinforce her country's close ties with Kosovo by promising more aid and opening a new embassy.
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Switzerland was among the first of many nations to recognize Kosovo's independence from Serbia, which it declared on Feb. 17. "Our two countries share strong human ties," Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said, referring to the 180,000 Albanians who left Kosovo to live in Switzerland during the 1980s and 1990s, for economic reasons or to flee ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Calmy-Rey said the Swiss give 50 million euros ($79 million) of aid to Kosovo each year and will seek to raise that amount after a donor's conference in June. She said the Swiss government will help with Kosovo's economic development and employment, rule of law, improvements in infrastructure and protection of minorities.
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Benzer Haberler 
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