Serb leader unyielding on Kosovo
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Serbian President Boris Tadic declares that he will never accept an independent Kosovo, during a visit to the province.
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A Serb boycott of Kosovo&#39;s general election increased tension between ethnic communities yesterday, raising the prospect that ethnic Albanian leaders may declare unilateral independence
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku said on Friday the province should declare unilateral independence from Serbia on November 28, arguing that a Western bid to steer its secession through the United Nations had failed.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - U.S. President George W. Bush met on Tuesday with a senior ethnic Albanian leader from Kosovo, as Washington pushes for a United Nations vote within days on the province's bid for independence from Serbia.
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VIENNA  - Kosovo sees no way forward in talks with Serbia and will move towards independence by the end of the year, the prime minister of the breakaway province said after another inconclusive round of negotiations here.All Serbia is talking about is the past Mediators from the United States, Russia and the European Union have until December 10 to try to bridge the chasm between Serbia's offer of autonomy for Kosovo and the 90-percent Albanian majority's demand for independence. "We are really looking for a way forward, but after this meeting we must conclude that we haven't found it," Agim Ceku told Austrian daily Der Standard Tuesday.  "All Serbia is talking about is the past," he said.
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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.The EU wants to send a policing and administrative mission to Kosovo to replace the current U.N. force, which took control alongside NATO peacekeepers in 1999 after war ended between Serbian troops and separatist ethnic Albanians.'I will have to closely and carefully assess the situation as it develops,' Ban told reporters after talks with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency. Read more
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"Kosovo directly affects the security and stability of our region"  Surrounded by photographers, NATO's Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, center right, talks to Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, center left, during an informal dinner for ministers, in the ... via The Macon Telegraph
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Britain's European affairs minister appealed to Kosovo's leadership Tuesday to improve security for the U.N.-run province's beleaguered Serb minority, which boycotted the weekend's elections.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Friday about 100 countries were ready to recognize the province's independence from Serbia as soon as it was declared.
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The EU's foreign policy chief is to visit Kosovo and Serbia to urge talks on a UN plan giving Kosovo self-rule.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Friday about 100 countries were ready to recognize the province's independence from Serbia, which political sources say could be declared on Feb 17.
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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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Following an apparent attempt on his life, Serbia&#39;s President Boris Tadic said yesterday that no threats would prevent him from &quot;pursuing the mission of establishing democracy in the country&quot;.
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Serbia's President expects Russia,  China and some other U.N. Security Council members to back  further talks on the status of Kosovo, though the West says all  avenues of possible compromise have been exhausted.
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"Using the policy of force, the U.S. threatens openly that it will not respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia, which is an internationally recognized state and a U.N. member"  Serbia disregarded European Union calls for less provocative Serb rhetoric on Kosovo at the weekend and warned that the United States was leading the West down a path of force to make the province independent. via Reuters
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BELGRADE, Feb 4 (IPS) - Serbian voters have decided, in the tightest  run-off so far, that their president for the next five years  remains incumbent Boris Tadic, seen as the leader who can take  the biggest nation in the Balkans closer to the EU.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic warned the European Union on Friday against "cutting corners" on Kosovo, urging further dialogue on the future of the province which is set to declare its independence from Belgrade.