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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Internatinal Olympic Committee(IOC) Recognizes Kosovo Tuesday Dec 09,2014

 
Kosovo was granted full International Olympic Committee membership on Tuesday Dec 09,2014, rubber-stamping the Balkan region`s first Games appearance at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 but angering Serbia, who accused the IOC of political bias.
IOC President Thomas Bach delivers a speech at the start of the 127th International Olympic Committee session in Monaco, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

The region, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, a decade after NATO went to war to halt the massacre and expulsion of Albanians by Serbian forces waging a two-year counter-insurgency under late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, became the 205th member of the IOC

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