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A poster of ex-President Clinton hangs behind him and admirers.
A poster of ex-President Clinton hangs behind him and admirers.
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PRISTINA, Kosovo — Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind Sunday in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, to give a warm welcome to former President Bill Clinton as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot, 1-ton, gold-sprayed statue of himself on a key boulevard that bears his name.

Clinton is celebrated as a hero by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority for launching NATO’s bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that stopped the brutal Serb forces’ crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians. The Associated Press

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