'We owe you so much,' Kosovo to tell Biden as street named after late son

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Mon Aug 15, 2016 2:39pm EDT

'We owe you so much,' Kosovo to tell Biden as street named after late son

By Fatos Bytyci | SOJEVE, KOSOVO

On a busy road in Kosovo, brand new signs have been put up ahead of a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, showing the 35-km route in the southeast of the small Balkan nation that has been renamed after his late son Beau.

Naming streets after U.S. officials is becoming something of a tradition in Kosovo, whose population is mainly ethnic Albanian and which considers the United States its savior since 1999 NATO air strikes halted killings by Serbian troops.

Beau Biden worked in Kosovo after the 1998-99 war ended, helping train local prosecutors and judges for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The former Delaware Attorney General died in 2015 of cancer. He was 46.

"If it hadn't been for the help of America, all Albanians would have been expelled, no one would be left here," 54-year-old Naser Sojeva said in the village of Sojeve, where Biden and his wife Jill will on Wednesday take part in a ceremony to dedicate the road to Beau.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kosovo-biden-street-idUSKCN10Q17X

[COLGATE4]

1. It's a nice gesture to a good man who is gone way too soon. nt