Russia says new EU role in Kosovo "not impossible"
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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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Russia's foreign minister said Friday that a proposed European Union police mission to Kosovo might be acceptable if it was approved by the United Nations and Serbia.
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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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Russia's envoy to Kosovo said on Monday that a proposed European Union police mission to the south Serbian province would be illegal without approval by the UN Security Council, Interfax reported.
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The European Union must be ready to guide Kosovo on an unstoppable path to independence after the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on the Serb province's future, the incoming EU presidency said on Thursday.
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Moscow will not back any U.N. plan for  Kosovo unless both Serbia and its breakaway province support  it, Russia&#39;s foreign minister said on Monday, pouring cold  water on a fresh attempt to find compromise with the West.
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The United States hopes Russia will back a U.N. plan putting Serbia's Kosovo province on the road to independence and does not expect a Russian veto in the Security Council, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Russia said on Sunday that Europe risked opening a "Pandora's box" if it went ahead and recognized the independence of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo.
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President Vladimir Putin's newly appointed envoy to NATO emphasized Moscow's opposition to Kosovo's independence bid Thursday, but said Russia would not send peacekeepers to the Serbian province.
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POTSDAM, Germany -- Foreign ministers from the Group of 8 countries clashed yesterday over the future of Kosovo after Russia warned that a United Nations plan to pave the way for independence from Serbia could encourage separatist movements in the Russian-backed regions of Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.
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Russia says it has no plans to impose sanctions on Kosovo in response to its expected declaration of independence.
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A senior U.S. diplomat called Sunday for Russia's cooperation in U.N. Security Council efforts to resolve Kosovo's status.
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Russia tells the US that Kosovo's declaration of independence threatens international stability.
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The EU's biggest four countries are pushing to impose and oversee independence in Kosovo without a fresh UN mandate, risking the ire of Russia and Serbia
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Russia remains at loggerheads with Western nations over Kosovo, despite months of diplomacy.
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Russia may not come to outright blows with the West over Kosovo, but independence for the province seems sure to deepen the Cold War-style chill settling over Europe.
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Russia said on Thursday the  United Nations had no authority to impose a solution on Serbia  over the status of its breakaway Kosovo province and only a  negotiated deal was acceptable.