Serb ballot boycott snags UN plans for Kosovo
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PRISTINA, Kosovo International efforts to determine Kosovo&#39;s future suffered an apparent setback Sunday as the province&#39;s Serb minority largely boycotted parliamentary elections.
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VIENNA - A senior U.N. envoy will send his independence plan for the Balkan province of Kosovo to the Security Council this month after failing on Saturday to find a compromise between Serbs and ...Comment
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The U.N. mission in Kosovo announced Friday that general elections will be held in the Serbian province Nov. 17, shortly before international envoys report on efforts to resolve the dispute between ethnic Albanians and Serbs over the territory's future.
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Serb leaders attended a church service Saturday instead of casting ballots in Kosovo's legislative elections, fulfilling their pledge to boycott a vote that will test the depth of the province's ethnic divide and international attempts at reconciliation.
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Serbia's parliament was set to adopt a resolution on Wednesday implicitly rejecting membership of the European Union and NATO if the West recognizes the independence of Kosovo.
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Testing Russia's opposition to plans for Kosovo's future, Europeans and the United States have formally introduced a draft U.N. resolution but have not decide whether to call a vote.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The West's decision to discard a U.N. resolution on the fate of Kosovo and pursue more talks will not stop the breakaway province's march to independence from Serbia, Kosovo politicians and analysts said.
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Kosovo Albanian leaders called  on the United Nations on Wednesday not to postpone a decision  on the fate of their breakaway province until after snap  elections in Serbia.
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Western nations softened a draft resolution to back U.N. plans for a future Kosovo state, but Russia dismissed the move on Thursday and renewed its threat of a veto unless there were radical changes.
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More than 1,000 Serbs protest in Kosovo against UN plans to give the province a form of self-rule.
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Reaction is mixed on the streets of Belgrade to UN plans for Kosovo's partial breakaway, says the BBC's Nick Hawton.
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Ethnic Serbians in the province of Kosovo should vote in tomorrow s parliamentary elections to ensure their ``interests and concerns are represented, said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo began  voting on Saturday for leaders likely to seek independence from  Serbia at U.N.-brokered talks that may be held next year.
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On the eve of Kosovo's crucial general elections, the province's minority Serbs were not deciding Friday who to vote for - but whether to cast any ballots at all.
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The beleaguered Serbian minority in Kosovo spurned a legislative election yesterday, heeding claims by hard-line nationalists in Belgrade that voting would
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The United States and Europeans  discarded a U.N. resolution on the future status of Kosovo on  Friday, because of Russian opposition, prompting Pristina to  propose declaring independence from Serbia on November 28.
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United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari on Friday avoided any pronouncement on the future sovereignty of Kosovo, but handed Serbia a plan that sets its breakaway province firmly on a path to independence.Comment