EU to move Kosovo away from U.N. if no deal: Solana
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The European Union  plans to withdraw the issue of Kosovo&#39;s final status from the  U.N. Security Council if Russia does not accept a resolution  within days, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on  Tuesday.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned Friday of the dangers of an impasse over Kosovo's future status, but did not say whether the EU could legally deploy a major mission there.
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Protesting Serbs in Kosovo  warned the European Union on Tuesday they would reject its  planned supervisory mission if the Albanian majority declares  independence from Serbia early next year.
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A U.N. Security Council resolution on Kosovo's future was set aside Friday in the face of a possible Russian veto, with its U.S. and European Union supporters opting instead to pursue negotiations outside the council.
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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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"We have seen what happened in former Yugoslavia when the European Union did not take things in hand."  European Union leaders, worried that Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc at a summit on Friday. via Reuters
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Slovenia, the current EU president, will host Saturday a meeting of four members of the Kosovo Contact Group to discuss the independence moves of the UN-run Serbian province, a report said.
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Serbia's parliament was set to adopt a resolution on Wednesday implicitly rejecting membership of the European Union and NATO if the West recognizes the independence of Kosovo.
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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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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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European Union foreign policy chief   Javier Solana said on Thursday he had failed to reach a deal   with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator on Tehran's atomic   ambitions, but they had paved the way for further talks.
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The European Union warned  Kosovo on Thursday against an &quot;irresponsible&quot; declaration of  independence after Russia again rejected a Western-backed  United Nations resolution that would effectively grant the  move.
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The European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, has recently held a secret meeting with representatives of Palestinian movement, Hamas, it was revealed on Thursday.
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The European Union will not sign a pact on ties with Serbia this week as planned after its nationalist prime minister blocked the move, a top EU official said on Wednesday.
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Serbia&#39;s breakaway province of Kosovo  will be independent one way or the other so the United Nations  should hurry up and pass a formal resolution next month, U.N.  envoy Martti Ahtisaari was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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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.
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The United States and Europeans have decided not to call a U.N. Security Council vote on Kosovo's future status and instead will initiate talks between Belgrade and Pristina, Britain and the United States said on Friday.