New U.N. Governor Signals Push on Kosovo Status
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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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EU leaders, fresh from signing a treaty that overhauls the way the bloc runs, will strive Friday to present a united front on Kosovo as the Serbian province prepares to move to independence.
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Kosovo lawmakers named a former rebel commander as prime minister of their new government Friday, ignoring concerns that a UN war crimes tribunal might indict him.
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Kosovo's prime minister vowed Thursday to declare independence unilaterally if internationally brokered talks don't "open a way for us," staking out a tough position as the latest round of negotiations on the province's future began in Vienna.
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Major powers on Wednesday  authorized a U.N. mediator to propose a final status plan for  Kosovo and to achieve a settlement by the end of this year that  they said neither side could block unilaterally.
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There was a "whiff of statehood" in the cold air in Kosovo on Friday, according to the Pristina daily Express .Comment
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's  general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky  endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N.  protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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BELGRADE/PRISTINA - U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari unveiled a plan on Friday to set Serbia's Kosovo province on a path to independence, an outcome which Kosovo's majority ...Comment
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United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari on Friday avoided any pronouncement on the future sovereignty of Kosovo, but handed Serbia a plan that sets its breakaway province firmly on a path to independence.
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United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari on Friday avoided any pronouncement on the future sovereignty of Kosovo, but handed Serbia a plan that sets its breakaway province firmly on a path to independence.Comment
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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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Ethnic Serbians in the province of Kosovo should vote in tomorrow s parliamentary elections to ensure their ``interests and concerns are represented, said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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Kosovo's United Nations governor accused Serbia on Monday of undermining efforts to forge a multi-ethnic democracy in the province.
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Kosovo's general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N. protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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VENICE, Dec 10 (IPS) - There is hardly a trouble-shooter in the world  today more trusted than Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the Crisis  Management Initiative. Kosovo, the disputed southern province of  Serbia, is the latest challenge he has taken on.
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The new U.N. administrator for Kosovo took control Sunday of the Serbian province, which has remained deeply divided along ethnic lines since the end of a 1999 war.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that progress towards democracy in Kosovo could "unravel" if its status is not decided and reiterated his strong support for the province's independence.