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US Looks For Serb Backing For More Discussions On Kosovo’s Outlook

Belgrade, Serbia: A senior U.S. representative will seek Serbia’s supporting Tuesday for more discussions over Kosovo’s freedom demands.

In the past, Serbia has discarded the plan of holding more talks within a set time period and under the situation that if no accord is reached Kosovo will become independent.

On Monday, Daniel Fried, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State stated in Kosovo that a limited period of negotiations was necessary between Serbs and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told that the US was wishing to grant an extra period of weeks or months for discussions.

Mr. Fried meets with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, who both wish more discussions, but devoid of the situation that its southern province will turn out to be independent if no conformity is reached.

They declare that such an arrangement would give Kosovo Albanians a tough cause not to participate in grave negotiations.

Simultaneously, the U.S. and European Union (EU) have regenerated their insistency for rapid U.N. Security Council deed to put Kosovo on the road to liberty. Council members Russia and China stay opposed to any U.N. decision, which is not backed up by Serbia and have demanded novel negotiations.

Whereas Kosovo remains a province of Serbia, it has been under U.N. and NATO direction since a 78-day NATO-led air war that blocked a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in 1999.

In April, U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari suggested Kosovo be granted worldwide monitored independency.

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