"Groundhog Day" at Kosovo talks
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Serbia wants talks on Kosovo to go back to where they started a year ago, ignoring a United Nations plan based on granting independence to the breakaway province, a Kosovo Albanian leader said on Wednesday.
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"There is virtual unity on Kosovo."  By David BrunnstromBRUSSELS  - Kosovo Albanian leaders said on Monday they will start immediate talks with Western backers towards an independence declaration as the EU came closer to unity in support of the province's drive to secede from Serbia.With a United Nations deadline for agreement on the future of the breakaway province expiring on Monday, Russia warned any unilateral recognition could trigger problems around the world."From today, Kosovo begins consultations with key international partners to coordinate the next steps to a declaration of independence," Skender Hyseni, spokesman of Kosovo's negotiating team with Serbia, said in Pristina. Read more
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"Everything else is a sort of violation of international law."  By David Brunnstrom and Douglas HamiltonBRUSSELS/BELGRADE  - 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.Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Russia's envoy in a troika supervising the Serb-Kosovo Albanian talks that started two weeks ago, accused the United States of bad faith for its declaration of support for Kosovo independence later this year. Read more
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The foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany and Italy discussed the situation in Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo Saturday, at an informal meeting in Slovenia.
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Kosovo appealed to the United  States on Monday to set a date for the province&#39;s independence  from Serbia, saying Russia had blocked its path through the  United Nations.
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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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"We have seen what happened in former Yugoslavia when the European Union did not take things in hand."  European Union leaders, worried that Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc at a summit on Friday. via Reuters
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The United Nations has granted Belgrade more time to prepare for a final round of talks on the future status of Kosovo, the breakaway Albanian-majority province of Serbia.
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By WILLIAM J. KOLE Saturday, March 10, 2007 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 ...Comment
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Kosovo appealed to the U.S. on  Monday to set a date for the province&#39;s independence from  Serbia, signaling rising impatience with Western efforts to  steer the project through the United Nations.
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PRISTINA, Dec 6 (IPS) - The Troika mediating between Serbia and its  breakaway southern province Kosovo has had to acknowledge that  its 120-day mediation period has really led nowhere.
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European Union countries are considering how to respond to Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. Send us your views.
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The European Union will seek Monday to set aside divisions and examine ways to end the impasse over Kosovo&#39;s future status after Russia blocked attempts to put the province on the road to independence.
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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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A final round of talks on the status of Kosovo will begin on 21 February - a week later than planned, the UN says.
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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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The United States and European nations hope to circulate a U.N. Security Council resolution on Wednesday that seeks a four-month delay on a independence plan for Kosovo in an effort to get Russia's approval.