Donor funds only the start of Kosovo reconstruction

By Fatos Bytyci

PRISTINA, July 9 (Reuters) - Newly independent Kosovo expects to secure up to 1.5 billion euros at a donor conference on Friday in what it hopes will be a first step towards self-sufficiency. The Albanian-majority territory seceded from Serbia in February after nine years as a U.N. protectorate.

For decades the poorest part of Yugoslavia, it is still weighed down by the destruction of the 1998-99 war and a legacy of waste and corruption under international stewardship.

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