Kosovo asks Serbs to accept separate, cordial future
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The leaders of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority urged Serbia on Thursday to stop trying to block independence for the breakaway province and instead look to a future of friendly relations between two sovereign states.
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Kosovo's president accused Serbia of aggression Thursday for passing a parliamentary resolution that calls for reconsidering ties with any country that recognizes Kosovo as independent.
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Kosovo's president declared Wednesday the province would become independent of Serbia within days, but he did not specify a date.
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BELGRADE - Serbia is ready to use force to prevent Western states from recognizing Kosovo as an independent state, a senior Serbian official warned yesterday.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo appealed to the United States on Monday to set a date for the province's independence from Serbia, saying Russia had blocked its path through the United Nations.
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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal  - European Union states will seek to maintain a common front over the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, amid growing concern that it will declare independence unilaterally.
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Serbia is telling Serbs in Kosovo to  ignore an Albanian declaration of independence early next year,  raising the prospect of an ethnic partition of the breakaway  province that the West has long ruled out.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo could soon be Europe's newest independent state, but the Albanian majority in Serbia's breakaway province still has to decide on a name, a flag and an anthem.
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United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari today presented Serbian President Boris Tadic with a compromise proposal on the status of Kosovo, where the ethnic Albanian majority is seeking independence from Serbia.Comment
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Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders insisted on independence as "the beginning and end" of their position in talks with international mediators on Wednesday on the future of the breakaway Serbian province.
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As the U.N. nudges Kosovo toward what it calls âfinal statusâ and what Belgrade calls independence, many of northern Kosovoâs Serbs are threatening to break away.
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Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo will be independent one way or the other so the United Nations should hurry up and pass a formal resolution next month, U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku called on parliament on Friday to declare unilateral independence from Serbia on November 28, faced with diplomatic stalemate between the West and Russia at the United Nations.
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For Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, a new U.N. proposal opens the door to their long-awaited dream of independence, while prompting Serbia's leaders to warn of secession.Comment
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Serbian President Boris Tadic says that during his visit to Washington this week, he will seek to explain to U.S. officials his country's opposition to independence for Kosovo.
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A U.N. plan to formalize Kosovo's secession may help the hard-liners in Serbia
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Europe's big countries and the US formally acknowledge Kosovo's independence