US ambassador to Kosovo Tina Kaidanov, center, talks to the media after meeting Kosovo's president Fatmir Sejdiu, right and prime minister Hashim Thaci in Pristina, Kosovo, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008. President George W. Bush hailed Kosovo's historic bid for statehood and the U.S. government extended formal recognition to it as "a sovereign and independent state." (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)