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Moderate Kosovo leader Ibrahim Rugova gestures while talking to the press after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Javier Solana at the NATO headquarter in Brussels on Tuesday, 18 May 1999. Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova died Saturday, 21 January 2006, a government source said in Pristina. Rugova, 61, was diagnosed with lung cancer in August. The head of the UN administration in the province, the NATO-led peacekeeping corps and leaders of all Kosovo Albanian parties were in an emergency meeting, the source said. EPA/Olivier Matthys