UN to decide Kosovo's fate as talks end deadlocked
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VIENNA - The U.N. Security Council will decide whether to give Kosovo independence from Serbia, after U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari on Saturday declared an end to over a year of fruitless ...Comment
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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 ethnic Albanians.
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"If Russia prevents the council from dealing with this issue ... the process will not stop there. The process then will move outside the council"  By EDITH M. LEDERER The Associated Press Updated 07/18/07 - 5:36 PM Russia rejected the final version of a U.S.-European Union draft resolution on Kosovo's future status Wednesday, setting the stage for a vote ... via The Herald
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The divided city of Mitrovica is a focus of tension as officials negotiate Kosovo's future status.
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The European Union and the United States agreed Wednesday to delay a U.N. vote on a resolution that would give Kosovo independence under international supervision until after this week's Group of Eight summit discussion.
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Final talks between Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders over Kosovo's future begin on Wednesday.
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The United States and its major-power  partners want a decision on the final status of Serbia's United  Nations-administered Kosovo province this year and see no need  for delay, a U.S. envoy said on Monday.
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Serbian and ethnic Albanian negotiators remain deadlocked on the heart of a U.N. plan that would put the restive Serbian province of Kosovo on the road to eventual independence, a U.N. special envoy said Wednesday.
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The U.N. Security Council tried  to bridge deep divisions Wednesday over the future of Serbia's  breakaway province Kosovo, but EU diplomats said they expected  no last-minute compromise.
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BRUSSELS/PRISTINA, Serbia  - The European Union plans to withdraw the issue of Kosovo's final status from the U.N. Security Council if Russia does not accept a resolution within days, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Tuesday.
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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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Prolonged deadlock over the future of Serbia's Kosovo province could create instability in the region, put U.N. achievements at risk and threaten U.N. staff, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The progress made in Kosovo since a 1998-99 war risks unraveling without a decision on the Albanian majority's demand for independence from Serbia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a report.
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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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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. ...Comment
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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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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