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Stalemate in Kosovo talks after Serbia proposal rejected

by Aleksandra NiksicTue Nov 27, 9:03 AM ET

Internationally-sponsored talks over the future status of the Serbian province of Kosovo were deadlocked Tuesday, after Kosovo Albanian leaders rejected Serbia's proposal for self-governance.

Serbian President Boris Tadic listed a series of concessions the government in Belgrade was ready to make, including autonomy in legal, economic and daily affairs, during a meeting between the parties in Baden, outside Vienna.

"Kosovo would be officially self-governing, with the full consent of Belgrade," while Serbia maintains rights over the "province's foreign policy, defence, border control and the protection of Serbian heritage," Tadic told the delegates.

But Skender Hyseni, a spokesman for the Kosovo Albanian delegation, dismissed the proposal, saying Serbia "continued to offer vision and models which basically are a recipe for frozen conflicts... for half-solutions, which do not take neither Kosovo nor Serbia anywhere."

"I'm afraid that nothing spectacular will happen," he said, adding that no agreement would probably be reached during the closed-door gathering, seen as a last-ditch attempt to solve the Kosovo issue.

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