科索沃热烈欢迎到访的美国国务卿希拉里.克林顿,克林顿以此结束了对存在民族裂痕的巴尔干半岛三个国家的访问。星期三，克林顿在科索沃首都普里什蒂纳受到数千名在车队途经路线上挥舞旗帜的阿尔巴尼亚族人的欢迎。她途经的路线包括以她丈夫、美国前总统比尔.克林顿命名的比尔.克林顿大道的一段路。克林顿随后与哈奇总理举行了会谈。星期三晚些时候，克林顿按计划将访问位于首都普里什蒂纳郊外格拉查尼察的少数民族塞族一个飞地。
克林顿是从塞尔维亚抵达普里什蒂纳的，塞尔维亚拒绝承认科索沃这个曾经是它的一个省的独立。科索沃是在两年前脱离塞尔维亚，它现在被70个国家承认为一个独立的国家。克林顿国务卿敦促塞尔维亚和科索沃的领导人改善双边关系，并且就影响该地区的一些实际问题举行欧盟斡旋的会谈。
Kosovo has extended a warm welcome to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as she closed out a three-nation tour of the ethnically splintered Balkans. Clinton was greeted Wednesday in the capital, Pristina, by thousands of flag-waving ethnic Albanians who lined a motorcade route which included a stretch of Bill Clinton Boulevard -- the roadway named for her husband and former U.S. president. She then held talks with Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and was scheduled to visit a minority Serb enclave in Gracanica, just outside Pristina later Wednesday.
Clinton arrived in Pristina from Serbia, which refuses to recognize the independence of its former province. Kosovo seceded two years ago and is recognized by 70 nations as an independent country. The Secretary is pressing leaders in both capitals to improve bilateral relations and to move forward with European Union-brokered talks on practical issues affecting the region.
