Russia warns Kosovo faces limbo
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Moscow says Kosovo will never be accepted as a state by the UN if it declares independence.
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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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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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Russian president says recognition of Kosovo's independence would be 'immoral and illegal'
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Russia will accept a partition of  Serbia&#39;s Kosovo province if that is the solution agreed by  Belgrade and Kosovo&#39;s ethnic Albanian majority, Russian Foreign  Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
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Serbia warned the EU on  Wednesday it would not accept any decision on Kosovo taken  outside the United Nations and its ally Russia told the United  States to stop backing Kosovo independence while talks  continue.
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Russia rejected as unacceptable  on Wednesday a new U.N. Security Council resolution drafted by  Europeans and the United States that paves the way to  independence for Kosovo in four months.
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Russia's foreign minister said in a television interview on Friday it was "not impossible" that the European Union could take over the U.N.'s role in the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, provided Belgrade agreed.
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The United States and Germany made one last appeal to Russia on the future status of Kosovo before deciding on Friday whether to shelve a U.N. Security Council resolution Moscow has threatened to veto.
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Russia sees no point in joining  discussions about a new resolution on Kosovo in the United  Nations unless the draft is radically changed, Interfax news  agency quoted a senior diplomat as saying on Friday.
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A unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo would damage security in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
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Russia on Wednesday backed its  ally Serbia, saying Kosovo will never become a member of the  United Nations or other international organizations if the  breakaway province unilaterally declares independence.
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Russia opposes a NATO-backed proposal to  set Serbia's province of Kosovo on the road to independence but  may accept a trade-off on its future in return for other  concessions, diplomats and analysts believe.
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Russia denounced Kosovo's independence declaration Sunday and called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, underlining its opposition to the Serbian province's Western-backed bid for statehood.
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The United States threatened on Friday to move forward on Kosovo, which is clamoring for independence from Serbia, whether Russia agreed or not to the latest U.N. Security Council draft resolution.
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The Group of Eight failed to break the deadlock between Russia and the West on the vexed issue of the future status of Kosovo on the final day of their three-day summit here on Friday.
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Russia on Wednesday backed its ally Serbia, saying Kosovo will never become a member of the United Nations or other international organizations if the breakaway province unilaterally declares independence.