Serbia and Kosovo are due to hold their first high-level talks since Pristina declared independence three years ago.

自普里斯提纳宣布独立起三年之后，塞尔维亚与科索沃将举行首次高层会谈。

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During World War I, the Council of Lithuania (Lietuvos Taryba) declared the independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918, and the re-establishment of the Lithuanian State.

一战期间，1918年2月16日，立陶宛宣布独立，维尔纽斯地区在1920年被波兰入侵，并在两年后并入波兰。

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In 1776, the thirteen British colonies to the south of Quebec declared independence and formed the United States.

年，十三个英国殖民地在魁北克南部宣布独立，并组成美国。

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Serbia's main ally Russia has recognized the self-declared independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia last year, despite strong opposition from Belgrade and from Moscow.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared independence following Georgia's conflict with Russia last August.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

His radicalism scared criollo landholders, and Mexico declared independence only in 1821, in conservative reaction to a liberal Spanish government.

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South Sudan took with it nearly three-quarters of Sudan's oil production when it declared independence and the two sides fell out over how much the South should pay to export its oil through Sudanese pipelines.

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Adelina Marku, who speaks for the Tetovo-based Democratic Party of Albanians, a junior partner in Macedonia's ruling coalition government, says that the Kosovars, who declared nominal independence from Serbia back in 1991 and created a series of notional organs of state, had lulled themselves into a false sense of security.

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