Envoy: Talks on Kosovo's status deadlock
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Yearlong talks on the future status of Kosovo ended in deadlock on Saturday, reflecting bitter divisions between Serbia's government and the disputed province's pro-independence ethnic Albanian leadership.
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"The independence of Kosovo is unacceptable for Serbia"  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.Officials said a breakthrough was unlikely. Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians continue to demand full independence from Serbia, while the Serbs insist on retaining Kosovo as part of their territory.That deadlock raises the likelihood of a dramatic showdown in December, when 120 days of last-ditch negotiations called by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon expire _ and the international community is confronted with the possibility that Kosovo's Albanians will make a play for statehood on their own. Read more
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VIENNA  - Kosovo sees no way forward in talks with Serbia and will move towards independence by the end of the year, the prime minister of the breakaway province said after another inconclusive round of negotiations here.All Serbia is talking about is the past Mediators from the United States, Russia and the European Union have until December 10 to try to bridge the chasm between Serbia's offer of autonomy for Kosovo and the 90-percent Albanian majority's demand for independence. "We are really looking for a way forward, but after this meeting we must conclude that we haven't found it," Agim Ceku told Austrian daily Der Standard Tuesday.  "All Serbia is talking about is the past," he said.
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The breakaway Serbian province  of Kosovo is not stable and its future must be resolved this  year, a United States envoy said on Wednesday.
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The Security Council signaled Wednesday that it would not be able to resolve the status of Kosovo, the breakaway Serbian province seeking independence.
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European Union foreign ministers meet on Monday to study ways to end the impasse over Kosovo&#39;s future status and examine the first full draft of a new treaty of sorely-needed EU reforms.
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The UN Security Council prepares to discuss the future of Kosovo amid continuing deadlock.
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Last-chance talks on the future of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo open in Vienna on Thursday, without even the glimmer of a breakthrough in sight.
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BRDO, Slovenia  - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Friday he was concerned that the U.N. Security Council remained deeply divided over Kosovo, saying the impasse there could be dangerous.
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A senior U.S. diplomat called for Russia's cooperation in U.N. Security Council efforts to resolve Kosovo's status, but Russia's foreign minister said Monday that any resolution that is unacceptable to Serbia will not pass, Russian news agencies reported.
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But the leaders _ from central, southern and eastern Europe _ came to no conclusion on how to resolve the debate over Kosovo should be granted internationally supervised independence as an U.N. envoy has ... via PR-inside.com
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Top ethnic Albanian and Serbian leaders staked out widely differing positions Monday during their first face-to-face talks over Kosovo's future.
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Major powers at a G8  summit were deadlocked on Friday over the breakaway Serbian  province of Kosovo, with Russia resisting the terms of a French  plan to delay a U.N. vote on its independence.
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UN Security Council talks fail to bridge the gap between the West and Russia over the future of Kosovo.
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Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci hints that a declaration of independence may be delayed, but not for how long.
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Russian officials suggested Friday that Kosovo's U.N. envoy is biased, questioning his ability to settle the breakaway province's dispute with Serbia over independence, and called for more changes in a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Kosovo.
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Top envoys for Iran and the European Union ended talks Thursday with little indication they were closer to resolving a deadlock over Tehran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.