No Kosovo breakthrough likely: envoy
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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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MUNICH, Germany  - Europe risks opening a "Pandora's box" if it recognizes Kosovo's independence despite Serbian objections, a top Russian official said on Sunday.
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Russia&#39;s U.N. ambassador denied  on Tuesday that Moscow and Western powers had reached a  compromise on the future of the U.N.-run Serbian province of  Kosovo, dismissing a report in a Croatian newspaper.
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Prolonged deadlock over the future of Serbia's Kosovo province could create instability in the region, put U.N. achievements at risk and threaten U.N. staff, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report.
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The prosecutor of the U.N. war  crimes court for the Balkans on Monday urged a delay in  deciding the future of Kosovo, saying it would interfere with  her quest to get major fugitives arrested for trial.
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Talks on the future of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo must not drag on indefinitely or get sidetracked in an arid dispute over labels such as "independence", senior European officials said on Tuesday.
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Russia opposes a NATO-backed proposal to  set Serbia's province of Kosovo on the road to independence but  may accept a trade-off on its future in return for other  concessions, diplomats and analysts believe.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon said Friday he could not yet give his blessing to a planned 1,800-strong European Union mission for Kosovo because of the international dispute over the future of the breakaway Serbian province.
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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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UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (IPS) - After several closed door meetings over the last  few weeks, the 15-member U.N. Security Council has failed to  reach agreement on a Western proposal for the creation of a new  independent nation state of Kosovo.
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VIENNA - A senior U.N. envoy will send his independence plan for the Balkan province of Kosovo to the Security Council this month after failing on Saturday to find a compromise between Serbs and ...Comment
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Serbian and ethnic Albanian negotiators remain deadlocked on the heart of a U.N. plan that would put the restive Serbian province of Kosovo on the road to eventual independence, a U.N. special envoy said Wednesday.
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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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The breakaway Serbian province  of Kosovo is not stable and its future must be resolved this  year, a United States envoy said on Wednesday.
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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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The prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes court for the Balkans on Monday urged a delay in deciding the future of Kosovo, saying it would interfere with her quest to get major fugitives arrested for trial.
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UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari, pictured, has refused to talk of Kosovo's independence, instead urging more talks to reach a compromise over the most pressing issue left over from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.Comment