Kosovo will acquire full sovereignty in September, the 25-nation International Steering Group (ISG) overseeing the territory’s independence announced Monday after a meeting in Vienna.

Kosovo will acquire full sovereignty in September, the 25-nation International Steering Group (ISG) overseeing the territory's independence announced Monday after a meeting in Vienna.

The group said Kosovo, which broke away from Serbia in 2008, had fulfilled its commitments, "thereby setting the scene for ending supervised independence after the ISG's meeting scheduled for September 2012."

In a statement, the ISG welcomed "the passing of the laws and amendments to implement the Comprehensive Settlement Proposal (CSP) package, including laws on cultural and religious heritage, community rights and decentralization."

The 25-nation ISG includes several EU states besides Austria, as well as Turkey and the United States.

In January, the steering group had announced that Kosovo had made such progress that the "supervised independence" could be lifted by the end of the year.

On Monday, the ISG stressed that "the principles and spirit that have governed the CSP need to continue... after ending supervised independence."

Kosovo and its two million majority ethnic-Albanian population have been under some form of international administration since a NATO bombing campaign forced Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic's forces out of the territory in 1999.