Crucial talks on Kosovo's future
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The leaders of Serbia and its province of Kosovo prepare for landmark talks at the UN in New York.
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Kosovo formally made its pitch for  independence face-to-face with Serbia on Monday at their first  top-level talks since NATO bombs drove Serb forces from the  province in 1999.
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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.Comment
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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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International envoys mediating in talks on the future of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo on Monday will try to stop them immediately coming to a standstill on the independence issue, the European Union's envoy said.
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"We have seen what happened in former Yugoslavia when the European Union did not take things in hand."  European Union leaders, worried that Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc at a summit on Friday. via Reuters
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The EU's foreign policy chief is to visit Kosovo and Serbia to urge talks on a UN plan giving Kosovo self-rule.
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Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority return to Vienna on Thursday for fresh talks on the fate of the breakaway Serbian province, forced by Russia's opposition to a Western plan for independence.
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Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders hold  talks in Vienna on Saturday for what could be the last time  before a U.N. plan offering the breakaway province of Kosovo  independence goes to the U.N. Security Council.
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With renewed violence in Kosovo as a menacing backdrop, Serbian and ethnic Albanian negotiators met in Vienna on Wednesday for a final contentious round of talks on the future status of the breakaway province.
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Talks about a U.N. plan for Kosovo were postponed for one week, after Serbia requested more time to allow for a parliament to be formed in Belgrade, a U.N. mediator said Friday.
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Top Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders &#151; bitterly divided over Kosovo's future status &#151; began their final round of talks Saturday on a contested U.N. plan for the disputed province.
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Kosovo's prime minister vowed Thursday to declare independence unilaterally if internationally brokered talks don't "open a way for us," staking out a tough position as the latest round of negotiations on the province's future began in Vienna.
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On the eve of Kosovo's declaration of independence, can it escape its legacy of violence?
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Talks on the future of Serbia&#39;s  breakaway province of Kosovo must not drag on indefinitely or  get sidetracked in an arid dispute over labels such as  &quot;independence,&quot; senior European officials said on Tuesday.
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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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President Bush says the time has come to bring the issue of Kosovo's independence "to its head", during talks in Italy.