Romania says patience needed in Kosovo talks
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Major powers should give Serbia and  the breakaway Kosovo province more time to work out a peace  plan, rather than imposing a solution that may be too difficult  to enforce, Romanian President Traian Basescu said.
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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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BRUSSELS/PRISTINA, Serbia  - Seeking to raise pressure on Russia, the European Union said on Thursday it could withdraw the issue of Kosovo's final status from the U.N. Security Council if Moscow does not accept a resolution soon.
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The European Union must be ready to  guide Kosovo on an unstoppable path to independence after the  U.N. Security Council failed to agree on the Serb province's  future, the incoming EU presidency said on Thursday.
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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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Romanian president Ion Iliescu on Monday said his country was determined to complete by year-end negotiations with Brussels over its entry into the European Union.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The United Nations has agreed to a Serbian request to delay final talks on the fate of breakaway Kosovo province by a week to give Belgrade time to appoint delegates, a U.N. mediator said on Friday.
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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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The UN Security Council prepares to discuss the future of Kosovo amid continuing deadlock.
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A solution to Kosovo's final status  will be delayed until early spring, the European Union's  enlargement chief was quoted as saying on Thursday, a day after  Serbia set a crucial presidential election for January 20.
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New talks to decide the future of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo got under way on Thursday with a conciliatory tone from both sides, but no breakthrough on their fundamental disagreement over its independence.
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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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The prospect of progress in talks on Kosovo's future status is "increasingly slim", a UN mediator warns.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo appealed to the U.S. on Monday to set a date for the province's independence from Serbia, signaling rising impatience with Western efforts to steer the project through the United Nations.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  said on Tuesday that further delay in diplomatic moves to  determine Kosovo&#39;s final status would have negative  consequences in the breakaway Serbian province and beyond.
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The European Commission will recommend Romania and Bulgaria join the EU in January - but with tough terms.
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Final talks between Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders over Kosovo's future begin on Wednesday.