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SWITZERLAND SUPPORTS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE - FORMIN

BRATISLAVA, November 29 (Tanjug) - Switzerland supports independence of Kosovo, Swiss Foreign Minister MIcheline Calmy-Rey said on Tuesday in Bratislava.

Switzerland and the Kosovo province have very intensive relations, as about 10 percent of the Kosovo population live in Switzerland and should there be any instability in Kosovo, Switzerland will suffer the consequences, Calmy-Rey told a joint press conference with her Slovakian counterpart Eduard Kukan, AFP reports.

Slovakia, which has just been elected a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, did not take a clear stance on this issue. Kukan only said that the most important aspect of resolving the Kosovo status issue is making certain that it should be a European solution, which must not jeopardize the fragile stability in the region.