KOSOVO PRESIDENT - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, center, escorts visiting President Fatmir Sejdiu, left, and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, of the newly independent nation of Kosovo, into the Pentagon on July 18, 2008. Gates and his senior advisors will meet with the Kosovar leadership to discuss the new nation’s security requirements. Defense Dept. photo by R. D. Ward.
US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates hosts an honor cordon to welcome President Sejdiu and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci to the Pentagon. Whereas on Monday the state delegation of the Republic of Kosovo is to meet the President of the United States, George W. Bush.