Messy endgame delays U.S. exit from Kosovo
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CAMP BONDSTEEL, Serbia  - From the vantage point of a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter, the new road to Debelde cuts a tidy yellow line through tilled farmland on Kosovo's southern border with Macedonia.
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"If Russia prevents the council from dealing with this issue ... the process will not stop there. The process then will move outside the council"  By EDITH M. LEDERER The Associated Press Updated 07/18/07 - 5:36 PM Russia rejected the final version of a U.S.-European Union draft resolution on Kosovo's future status Wednesday, setting the stage for a vote ... via The Herald
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Kosovo's U.N. governor Joachim  Ruecker warned the Security Council on Wednesday that further  delaying a decision on the province's plea for independence  from Serbia could fuel instability in the region.
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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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PRISTINA, Serbia  - NATO on Friday asked Kosovo Albanians to give Western powers more time to steer their independence from Serbia through the United Nations, but admitted the project was in trouble.
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Kosovo's U.N. governor Joachim Ruecker warned the Security Council on Wednesday that further delaying a decision on the province's plea for independence from Serbia could fuel instability in the region.
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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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This week's vote could put Kosovo on the road to independence -- and further trouble
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Kosovo appealed to the U.S. on  Monday to set a date for the province&#39;s independence from  Serbia, signaling rising impatience with Western efforts to  steer the project through the United Nations.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The progress made in Kosovo since a 1998-99 war risks unraveling without a decision on the Albanian majority's demand for independence from Serbia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a report.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo appealed to the U.S. on Monday to set a date for the province's independence from Serbia, signaling rising impatience with Western efforts to steer the project through the United Nations.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's new  U.N. governor Tuesday pledged a drive to resolve the province's  final status, warning the West had failed to read the  frustrations that fueled ethnic riots in March.
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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 road to independence.Comment
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The United States and Europeans  discarded a U.N. resolution on the future status of Kosovo on  Friday because of Russian opposition, prompting Pristina to  propose independence from Serbia for November 28.
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"We've got to get you out of here,"  President George W. Bush told the U.S. Army commander in Kosovo  in 2001.
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The U.S. military is delaying the   departure of thousands of soldiers from Iraq while speeding the   arrival of thousands more as a way to keep more troops on the   ground to handle unrelenting violence, U.S. officials said on   Monday.
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The United States and Europeans  discarded a U.N. resolution on the future status of Kosovo on  Friday, because of Russian opposition, prompting Pristina to  propose declaring independence from Serbia on November 28.