Kosovo talks progress is 'slim'
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The prospect of progress in talks on Kosovo's future status is "increasingly slim", a UN mediator warns.
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Kosovo Albanians ruled out extending negotiations over the future of the breakaway province past a December 10 deadline, saying on Sunday they wanted the issue resolved as soon as possible.
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VIENNA, March 10 -- A year of contentious talks on the future status of Kosovo ended Saturday in a bitter deadlock over a U.N. plan that would set the disputed Serbian province on the road to independence.
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There is a silent land swap  under way in Kosovo, sifting Serb from Albanian under the noses  of Western powers who swore the breakaway province would never  be split along ethnic lines.
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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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Coalition talks are going nowhere  following Serbia's inconclusive election on January 21 and  there may have to be a re-run of the ballot this summer, as the  issue of breakaway Kosovo province dominates political life.
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Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders meet on Wednesday with international mediators in talks on the fate of the breakaway province, ahead of direct dialogue with Serbia next week in New York.
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A revised plan on the final status of Kosovo is unlikely to overcome Russian objections at the UN, France says.
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Postponing the final round of Kosovo status talks by about a week would be acceptable to the EU, the bloc's foreign policy chief said Wednesday.Comment
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No plan for Kosovo will work until Serbs and Albanians lay history aside
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Preparations for talks on Kosovo's future status should begin within months and power transferred more quickly to the Serbian province's local administration, a U.N. special envoy has recommended.
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The U.N. Security Council failed to bridge deep divisions over the future of Kosovo on Wednesday and Western countries said they would take the lead in steering the province to independence from Serbia.
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European Union defence ministers began talks Thursday focused on the Balkans, amid hopes that a compromise will be found on Kosovo's future status and that Bosnia will remain calm.
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The West&#39;s decision to discard  a U.N. resolution on the fate of Kosovo and pursue more talks  will not stop the breakaway province&#39;s steady march to  independence from Serbia, Kosovo politicians and analysts said.
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India&#39;s foreign minister says modest progress was made in two days of peace talks with his Pakistani counterpart in New Delhi.
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Serbia and the Albanians of its breakaway Kosovo province are unlikely to agree on the future of the territory, United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari said as the two sides began a final series of talks on Wednesday.
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PRISTINA, Dec 6 (IPS) - The Troika mediating between Serbia and its  breakaway southern province Kosovo has had to acknowledge that  its 120-day mediation period has really led nowhere.