Kosovo talks start amid bitter division
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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.
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European Union  states will seek to maintain a common front over the breakaway  Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, amid growing concern  that it will declare independence unilaterally.
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Hopes dimmed for an agreement from the U.N. Security Council over the future of Kosovo, with Western diplomats saying negotiations were deadlocked Wednesday and talks would continue in European capitals.
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Serbia and the Albanians of its breakaway Kosovo province are unlikely to agree on the future of the territory, United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari said as the two sides began a final series of talks on Wednesday.
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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal  - European Union states will seek to maintain a common front over the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, amid growing concern that it will declare independence unilaterally.
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The European Union will try to avert a  damaging split over Kosovo on Friday when foreign ministers  debate how to respond to a possible unilateral declaration of  independence by the breakaway Serbian province.
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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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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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EU ministers are to consider Kosovo's declaration of independence, with members split on how to respond.
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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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Kosovo&#39;s ethnic Albanian leaders  insisted on independence as &quot;the beginning and end&quot; of their  position in talks with international mediators on Wednesday on  the future of the breakaway Serbian province.
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Envoys seeking compromise on the fate of Kosovo are pushing Serbs and ethnic Albanians to look for bridges over seemingly irreconcilable differences ahead of their first round of direct talks next week in New York.
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A push by Russia for more talks  over the future of Serbia's Kosovo province ran into immediate  opposition on Wednesday in the U.N. Security Council from  Western countries who say such talks would be pointless.
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Kosovo could soon be Europe's  newest independent state, but the Albanian majority in Serbia's  breakaway province still has to decide on a name, a flag and an  anthem.
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The U.N. Security Council tried  to bridge deep divisions Wednesday over the future of Serbia's  breakaway province Kosovo, but EU diplomats said they expected  no last-minute compromise.
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Kosovo Albanians will proclaim  independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in  the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia but cementing a bitter ethnic  frontline in the Balkans.
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Reaction is mixed on the streets of Belgrade to UN plans for Kosovo's partial breakaway, says the BBC's Nick Hawton.