Russia warns on Kosovo as G8 ministers meet
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POTSDAM, Germany  - Russia warned other world powers on Wednesday not to decide the fate of Kosovo on their own, saying only talks between Belgrade and Pristina could solve a row over independence for the Serbian province.
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Moscow will only back a United Nations Security Council resolution on Kosovo if Serbia also approves it, Russia&#39;s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Monday.
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Russia remains at loggerheads with Western nations over Kosovo, despite months of diplomacy.
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A senior U.S. diplomat called Sunday for Russia's cooperation in U.N. Security Council efforts to resolve Kosovo's status.
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NATO defense ministers faced a tense meeting with their Russian counterpart Friday after the Western alliance angered Moscow by agreeing to deepen cooperation with Georgia.
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Russia warned Kosovo's leaders Wednesday that if they declare independence the territory will never become a member of the United Nations or other international political institutions.
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Russia must decide if it wants positive relations with the West, a Downing Street spokesman said Monday after President Vladimir Putin warned of a new Cold War-style arms race.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G8 summit Friday, with relations between the two countries at a post-Soviet low.
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Moscow warned Western nations on Tuesday against interfering in Ukraine and other ex-Soviet republics and Washington and the European Union
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Russia will accept a partition of Serbia's Kosovo province if that is the solution agreed by Belgrade and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
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Russia insisted Friday that Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians and minority Serbs hold new negotiations on the province's future status without any promise of independence if the talks fail &#151; a stand strongly opposed by the U.S. and European Union nations.
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A clash between the United States and Russia over a proposed missile shield overshadowed a meeting of G8 foreign ministers Wednesday also marred by differences over climate change and Kosovo.
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Diplomats from the European Union, Russia and the United States held talks with Kosovo Albanian representatives Thursday at the start of another round of diplomacy to try to resolve the future of the breakaway Serbian province.
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A trio of top EU officials was in Moscow  on Monday to try to bridge the gap between Russia and the  European Union over the future of Kosovo.
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Russia says a draft UN resolution supporting Kosovo independence is unacceptable and hints at a veto.
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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.