Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci speaks to Reuters during an interview in Pristina March 27, 2014. REUTERS/Hazir Reka
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's prime minister proposed dissolving parliament on Tuesday and holding early elections on June 8 after Serb minority lawmakers nixed a vote on creating a national army by failing to show up.
Kosovo's Western backers, which recognised it as independent in 2008, had been reluctant to see the immediate creation of an army for fear of the message it might send to Serbia and the more than 100,000 ethnic Serbs who live in the country.
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