Serbia consent key to Kosovo future, says Russia
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Moscow will not back any U.N. plan for Kosovo unless both Serbia and its breakaway province support it, Russia's foreign minister said on Monday, pouring cold water on a fresh attempt to find compromise with the West.
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Russia s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called upon the UN mission and the Kosovo Force, as well as the provisional self-government bodies of the autonomous province within Serbia to prevent extremism in ...
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Serbia's President expects Russia,  China and some other U.N. Security Council members to back  further talks on the status of Kosovo, though the West says all  avenues of possible compromise have been exhausted.
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Russia gave a definitive &quot;no&quot; on  Monday to a European-American draft resolution on Kosovo that  would end a U.N. presence and put European representatives in  charge of the Serbian province.
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The United States hopes Russia will back a U.N. plan putting Serbia's Kosovo province on the road to independence and does not expect a Russian veto in the Security Council, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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Russia tells the US that Kosovo's declaration of independence threatens international stability.
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BELGRADE, Jan 26 (IPS) - Russia and Serbia signed a "strategic"  energy deal Friday.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Russia said on Sunday that Europe risked opening a "Pandora's box" if it went ahead and recognized the independence of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo.
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Serbia backs a major energy deal that further boosts Russian dominance of Europe's gas supply.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The United States on Monday urged support for a United Nations blueprint for the eventual independence of Serbia's Kosovo province, which Russia says must first win the backing of Belgrade.
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Russia on Friday gave its strongest  indication yet that it will oppose a proposal by a U.N. envoy  to set the breakaway Serb province of Kosovo on a path to  independence.
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Moscow will not back any U.N. plan for  Kosovo unless both Serbia and its breakaway province support  it, Russia&#39;s foreign minister said on Monday, pouring cold  water on a fresh attempt to find compromise with the West.
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Serbia warned on Thursday it would  defend Serb rights in Bosnia against Western-inspired threats  with as much determination as it is applying to prevent the  Western-inspired secession of its own Kosovo province.
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Kosovo looked forward on  Monday to recognition by the Western powers who went to war to  save its Albanian majority, but Russia served notice the new  state will never be forced on its Serb allies in the territory.
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Russia remains at loggerheads with Western nations over Kosovo, despite months of diplomacy.
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"Everything else is a sort of violation of international law."  By David Brunnstrom and Douglas HamiltonBRUSSELS/BELGRADE  - Serbia warned the EU on Wednesday it would not accept any decision on Kosovo taken outside the United Nations and its ally Russia told the United States to stop backing Kosovo independence while talks continue.Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Russia's envoy in a troika supervising the Serb-Kosovo Albanian talks that started two weeks ago, accused the United States of bad faith for its declaration of support for Kosovo independence later this year. Read more
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo is prepared to make a unilateral declaration of independence and is pressing the West to go ahead with a vote at the United Nations even if Russia is likely to veto the proposition.