Kosovans await word on their fate
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Kosovans anxiously await the publication of key proposals that will reportedly set them on the road to statehood.
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Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci tells reporters a declaration of independence is a matter of days away.
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VIENNA  - Kosovo sees no way forward in talks with Serbia and will move towards independence by the end of the year, the prime minister of the breakaway province said after another inconclusive round of negotiations here.All Serbia is talking about is the past Mediators from the United States, Russia and the European Union have until December 10 to try to bridge the chasm between Serbia's offer of autonomy for Kosovo and the 90-percent Albanian majority's demand for independence. "We are really looking for a way forward, but after this meeting we must conclude that we haven't found it," Agim Ceku told Austrian daily Der Standard Tuesday.  "All Serbia is talking about is the past," he said.
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Kosovo appealed to the U.S. on  Monday to set a date for the province&#39;s independence from  Serbia, signaling rising impatience with Western efforts to  steer the project through the United Nations.
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BELGRADE -- Suspense gripped Serbia yesterday, a day before the unveiling of a UN proposal for Kosovo's future -- a historic plan that officials say will map out a road to conditional nationhood for the bitterly contested province.
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Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci hints that a declaration of independence may be delayed, but not for how long.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There are some new faces in the Serb-controlled slice of northern Kosovo, the breakaway province where 2 million Albanians will declare independence from Serbia within days.
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On the eve of Kosovo's declaration of independence, can it escape its legacy of violence?
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U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari plans to   tell the major powers next week that talks between Serbs and   ethnic Albanians on the fate of Kosovo are nearing the end of   the line.
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"There is virtual unity on Kosovo."  By David BrunnstromBRUSSELS  - Kosovo Albanian leaders said on Monday they will start immediate talks with Western backers towards an independence declaration as the EU came closer to unity in support of the province's drive to secede from Serbia.With a United Nations deadline for agreement on the future of the breakaway province expiring on Monday, Russia warned any unilateral recognition could trigger problems around the world."From today, Kosovo begins consultations with key international partners to coordinate the next steps to a declaration of independence," Skender Hyseni, spokesman of Kosovo's negotiating team with Serbia, said in Pristina. Read more
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Kosovo's PM Hashim Thaci hints that an independence declaration may be delayed, but does not say how long.
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With the international community at loggerheads over how to proceed, Kosovo's independence-hungry Albanians may be tempted to take matters into their own hands
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PRISTINA, Jan 17 (IPS) - Every passing day brings more pressure on the two  million people of Kosovo over the future of the province.  Demonstrations on the streets of Pristina and Mitrovica, for and  against independence respectively, are strong indication of the  social unrest in anticipation of a decision.
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The Serbian minister for Kosovo said Friday that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on Feb. 17.
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The family of a British engineer anxiously awaited news of his fate at the hands of Islamic extremists in Iraq who abducted him eight days ago along with two Americans who have since been executed.
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benchmarks on human rights and rule of law across all of the ethnic groups in Kosovo, whose majority is Albanian. A review will then clear the way for talks on &quot;final status&quot; for the territory, which is legally a province of Serbia.
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Negotiations to determine whether Kosovo can be declared an independent state are still a year away.