New Kosovo U.N. draft may keep independence route
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Europeans and the United States  are drafting a U.N. resolution that would order 120 days of  negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo&#39;s ethnic Albanians but  no longer automatically call for independence.
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In countries worried about their own secessionist movements, the response to Kosovo's declaration of independence has been wary
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The UN waters down a draft resolution promising independence for Kosovo if talks with Serbia fail.
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Serbia&#39;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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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 Serb-Albanian talks.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There are some new faces in the Serb-controlled slice of northern Kosovo, the breakaway province where 2 million Albanians will declare independence from Serbia within days.
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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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Russia refused to budge on its  opposition to a new Western-backed draft U.N. resolution paving  the way for Kosovo independence as the Security Council  discussed the document for the first time on Friday.
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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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United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari on Friday handed to Serb authorities his plan for the future of Kosovo that will set the breakaway province on a path to independence.
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Kosovo will get independence from Serbia "one way or another" despite Russia's objections at the United Nations, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
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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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The West&#39;s decision to discard  a U.N. resolution on the fate of Kosovo and pursue more talks  will not stop the breakaway province&#39;s steady march to  independence from Serbia, Kosovo politicians and analysts said.
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On the eve of Kosovo's declaration of independence, can it escape its legacy of violence?
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Testing Russia's opposition to plans for Kosovo's future, Europeans and the United States have formally introduced a draft U.N. resolution but have not decide whether to call a vote.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United States and Europeans discarded a UN resolution on the future status of Kosovo yesterday because of Russian opposition, prompting Kosovo to propose independence from Serbia for Nov. 28.
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BELGRADE - United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari will hand over his plan for the future of Kosovo on Friday to Serb authorities braced for proposals that will set the breakaway ...Comment