Kosovo delay would have negative impact: U.N.&#39;s Ban
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  said on Tuesday that further delay in diplomatic moves to  determine Kosovo&#39;s final status would have negative  consequences in the breakaway Serbian province and beyond.
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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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The U.N. Security Council will decide whether to give Kosovo independence from Serbia, after U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari on Saturday declared an end to over a year of fruitless Serb-Albanian talks.
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Europeans and the United States circulated a U.N. draft resolution on Wednesday that paves the way to independence for Kosovo in four months but Russia immediately said it was unacceptable.
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Suspense gripped Serbia on Thursday, a day before the unveiling of a U.N. proposal for Kosovo's future, a historic plan that officials say will map out a road to conditional nationhood for the bitterly ...Comment
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Kosovo's PM Hashim Thaci hints that an independence declaration may be delayed, but does not say how long.
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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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Russia has warned that a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo could start a chain reaction. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the step - expected on 10 December - would destabilize Europe, and that Russia was therefore against it. Russia has repeatedly said that it will oppose any deal on the future of Kosovo that is not acceptable to Serbia. The U.S. has indicated that it will recognize a declaration of independence by Kosovo if no agreement is reached by 10 December.
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The political impasse over Kosovo's future cannot last much longer without "putting at serious risk" all the United Nations has achieved there, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cautioned Security Council members Monday.
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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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Russia rejected as unacceptable  on Wednesday a new U.N. Security Council resolution drafted by  Europeans and the United States that paves the way to  independence for Kosovo in four months.
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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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"Everything else is a sort of violation of international law."  By David Brunnstrom and Douglas HamiltonBRUSSELS/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.Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Russia's envoy in a troika supervising the Serb-Kosovo Albanian talks that started two weeks ago, accused the United States of bad faith for its declaration of support for Kosovo independence later this year. Read more
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BRUSSELS/PRISTINA, Serbia  - Seeking to raise pressure on Russia, the European Union said on Thursday it could withdraw the issue of Kosovo's final status from the U.N. Security Council if Moscow does not accept a resolution soon.
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The Security Council signaled Wednesday that it would not be able to resolve the status of Kosovo, the breakaway Serbian province seeking independence.
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The United States and Europeans have drafted a new U.N. Security Council resolution that seeks to delay independence for Kosovo for four months in an effort to meet Russia's objections, a U.S. official and other diplomats said on Tuesday.
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PRISTINA, Serbia - The United Nations will delay the start of final talks on the status of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province by just over a week, U.N. deputy envoy Albert Rohan said on Friday."A period of ...Comment