Serbia says will not recognize independent Kosovo
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Serbia will never recognize an independent Kosovo but will not use violence to prevent the country's ethnic Albanians from establishing their own state, Serbia's president said on Wednesday.
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Serbia is telling Serbs in Kosovo to ignore an Albanian declaration of independence early next year, raising the prospect of an ethnic partition of the breakaway province that the West has long ruled out.
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Serbia called on the United Nations on Saturday to reject a Western-backed proposal for the independence of Kosovo.
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Serbia promised not to resort to violence Monday but ordered ambassadors to return home as it argued against an independent Kosovo. The European nation also implored the U.N. Security Council to intervene.
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Serbia on Wednesday rejected a new U.S.-backed U.N. draft resolution on Kosovo, saying it would only lead to the province's independence, Serbia's prime minister said.
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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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Serbia said on Wednesday it would shun any offer of membership of the European Union or NATO if they recognized the breakaway province of Kosovo as an independent state.
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The European Union said on Wednesday  it will not sign a pact on ties with Serbia this week as  planned, after Belgrade's nationalist prime minister blocked  the move.
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Serbia called on the United Nations on  Saturday to reject a Western-backed proposal for the  independence of Kosovo.
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Serbia pledged Monday to cooperate with the U.N. war crimes court, and rejected U.S. criticism that it is not meeting demands by the international tribunal to extradite suspects.
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Kosovo's president urged Serbia on Wednesday to give up its claim to the province and cast doubt that upcoming talks would yield progress with both sides refusing to budge from their entrenched positions.
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Serbia was politically paralyzed on Wednesday over an invitation from the European Union to sign a pact that nationalists say is simply a trap to get the government to concede the independence of Kosovo.
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Kosovo told the United States on Monday that it did not have plans to unilaterally declare independence from Serbia, said senior officials from the United States and Kosovo.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Serbia has promised NATO it would not use force against Kosovo if the breakaway province carried out a vow to declare independence early next year, a senior alliance commander said on Thursday.
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BRUSSELS/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.
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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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Serbia will reject every element of a  U.N. plan for Kosovo that points to the creation of "another  Albanian state" during final talks beginning on Wednesday in  Vienna, a senior Serbian official said.