Pope Benedict XVI meets Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu (R) at the Vatican February 2, 2008. Pope Benedict met Sejdiu on Saturday in a private audience where he asked about the future of the breakaway Serbian province which is expected to declare independence in the next few weeks. The audience with Sejdiu, who has held the largely ceremonial post of Kosovan president since 2006, comes at an extremely sensitive time for Kosovo which has been run by the United Nations and patrolled by NATO since 1999. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano (VATICAN)