Serbian minority boycotts Kosovo election
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The beleaguered Serbian minority in Kosovo spurned a legislative election yesterday, heeding claims by hard-line nationalists in Belgrade that voting would
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The United Nations has banned  a self-styled Serb &#39;volunteer guard&#39; from entering Kosovo,  trying to calm Albanian tempers as Serbs remember a medieval  battle at the heart of their claim to the province.
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Serbia is telling Serbs in Kosovo to ignore an Albanian declaration of independence early next year, raising the prospect of an ethnic partition of the breakaway province that the West has long ruled out.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Oct. 23 -- Members of Kosovo's Serb minority boycotted parliamentary elections in high numbers Saturday, striking a blow at international efforts to promote multiethnic cooperation in advance of talks designed to determine the status of the province.
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Serbia's election body bars US and British observers from monitoring the 20 January presidential polls.
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International efforts to determine Kosovo&#39;s future suffered an apparent setback today as the province&#39;s Serb minority largely boycotted parliamentary elections.
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Serbia said on Wednesday it would shun any offer of membership of the European Union or NATO if they recognized the breakaway province of Kosovo as an independent state.
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Serbia's parliament overwhelmingly rejects a United Nations proposal on the future status of Kosovo.
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Serbs vote Sunday in polls in which Kosovo independence is a central issue. Slovenia was once part of Yugoslavia.
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STIMLJE, Serbia  - Kujtim Xhelili fought for Kosovo's independence from Serbia but will not join the celebrations when it finally arrives.
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Serbia said on Wednesday it would shun  any offer of membership of the European Union or NATO if they  recognized the breakaway province of Kosovo as an independent  state.
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Serb leaders attended a church service Saturday instead of casting ballots in Kosovo's legislative elections, fulfilling their pledge to boycott a vote that will test the depth of the province's ethnic divide and international attempts at reconciliation.
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Coalition talks are going nowhere following Serbia's inconclusive election on January 21 and there may have to be a re-run of the ballot this summer, as the issue of breakaway Kosovo province dominates political life.
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Protesting Serbs in Kosovo  warned the European Union on Tuesday they would reject its  planned supervisory mission if the Albanian majority declares  independence from Serbia early next year.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - Protesting Serbs in Kosovo warned the European Union on Tuesday they would reject its planned supervisory mission if the Albanian majority declares independence from Serbia early next year.
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Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy urged Thursday the Serb minority in Kosovo to vote in the parliamentary elections next month instead of boycotting them.
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Serbia will never recognize an  independent Kosovo but will not use violence to prevent the  country's ethnic Albanians from establishing their own state,  Serbia's president said on Wednesday.