UN Chief Hesitant Over EU Kosovo Mission
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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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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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Reaction is mixed on the streets of Belgrade to UN plans for Kosovo's partial breakaway, says the BBC's Nick Hawton.
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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal  - 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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The UN Security Council prepares to discuss the future of Kosovo amid continuing deadlock.
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The UN cautions Kosovo's ethnic Albanians over a warning of a "revolt" if the province is denied independence.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's appeal for international troops to protect U.N. monitors during Iraq's elections next year is unlikely to get a reply from Europe before the U.S. elections, analysts and diplomats said Friday.
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The United States threatened on Friday to move forward on Kosovo, which is clamoring for independence from Serbia, whether Russia agreed or not to the latest U.N. Security Council draft resolution.
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The United States and Germany made one last appeal to Russia on the future status of Kosovo before deciding on Friday whether to shelve a U.N. Security Council resolution Moscow has threatened to veto.
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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.
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The United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, has appealed to the European Union to play a bigger role in UN peacekeeping operations.
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The U.N. senior envoy who drafted a roadmap for Kosovo's future said Thursday that the chances of reaching a compromise between Serbia and the province's ethnic Albanian majority on the heart of the plan is "highly unlikely."
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With the international community at loggerheads over how to proceed, Kosovo's independence-hungry Albanians may be tempted to take matters into their own hands
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The UN mission in Kosovo on Sundayrejected Serbia's demand for the nullification of the election of the province's new prime minister.
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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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US and EU allies put on hold plans for a UN Security Council vote on Kosovo, citing Russian opposition.