Mr Sarkozy will stress that France has already commanded NATO missions in Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Five of the 27 EU countries do not recognise Kosovo: Spain, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus.
With nearly 60% of the vote, it has won at least 21 of Kosovo's 30 municipalities.
The other factor in the equation is Belgrade, where interest in Kosovo's future has reawakened recently.
Kosovo has 2m people, 90% of them ethnic Albanians, who have long been in the majority.
Mr Chernomyrdin's muddled mission highlights the two big questions about Russian policy towards Kosovo.
On September 9th the EU and Serbia sponsored a UN resolution calling for talks on Kosovo.
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In Kosovo, meanwhile, the K.L.A. officially disbanded, but many of its members joined political parties.
Unlike Argentina, South Africa, and Sierra Leone, Kosovo failed to establish its own truth-and-reconciliation commission.
Serbia, which lost control of Kosovo after a war in 1999, does not accept its independence.
Despite Kosovo's ethnic hatreds, the criminal clans of all stripes readily co-operate in Kosovo's lively underworld.
Milosevic said last week that he intended to go ahead and stage elections in Kosovo.
Under the new deal, Serbs in northern Kosovo will have their own police and appeal court.
It was his end in October 1998, when he accepted international monitors in Kosovo.
Missions that took days to plan in Desert Storm and hours in Kosovo now take minutes.
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Many of the refugees who leave Kosovo bring tales of atrocities committed against ethnic Albanian civilians.
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Serbia has rejected a European Union-brokered deal on normalising ties with its breakaway province of Kosovo.
Serbia still considers Kosovo a province and has refused to recognize its self-declared status.
Western powers overseeing Kosovo have announced the end of their supervision of the tiny Balkan nation.
It does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and regards it as part of Serbia.
Bush added that Ukraine already contributes to NATO missions, specifically in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo.
Many still regard Bill Clinton as a hero for saving Kosovars during the war in Kosovo.
The Albanians reject this policy on the grounds that it would amount to Kosovo's partition.
He would be the man supervising Kosovo's independence, if the Ahtisaari Plan came into effect.
Staff Sgt Nicholas Robinson, of the Royal Engineers, said he first met Sgt Jones in Kosovo.
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The refined oil will be sent north to Kosovo in a second pipeline now being built.
However he warned that Serbia needed to take a more "constructive" stance on Kosovo.
Meanwhile the EU's rule-of-law mission, EULEX, is crucial while Kosovo's own judiciary is in its infancy.
Kosovo's administration is reluctant to be drawn into an all-out confrontation with the Albanians.
The Americans in Kosovo's south-east are said by the Serbs to be soft on Albanians.
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