Kosovo president seeks final deal with Serbia in 2018 Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci is hoping to strike a "historic agreement" with Serbia in 2018, ten years after his country made a declaration of independence that Belgrade still rejects. In an interview with AFP, Thaci also stressed his cooperation with a new court set up in The Hague to try some of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian ex-guerrillas for war crimes -- although he believes the tribunal is an "historic injustice". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES