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| Final Kosovo talks end in failure | Final Kosovo talks end in failure |
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| Serbs and ethnic Albanians have failed to resolve the future status of Kosovo at a final round of internationally-brokered talks. | Serbs and ethnic Albanians have failed to resolve the future status of Kosovo at a final round of internationally-brokered talks. |
| "There has been no agreement with Serbia," Kosovo's ethnic Albanian President Fatmir Sejdiu said in Vienna. | "There has been no agreement with Serbia," Kosovo's ethnic Albanian President Fatmir Sejdiu said in Vienna. |
| The UN had set a 10 December deadline for a negotiated settlement on Kosovo. | The UN had set a 10 December deadline for a negotiated settlement on Kosovo. |
| The province's ethnic Albanians demand independence from Serbia but Belgrade has rejected this. The UN is eager to avoid fresh conflict in the region. | The province's ethnic Albanians demand independence from Serbia but Belgrade has rejected this. The UN is eager to avoid fresh conflict in the region. |
| Though technically part of Serbia, Kosovo has been administered by the UN for the last eight years. | |
| Belgrade's security forces were driven out of Kosovo by a Nato invasion in 1999, after being accused of the repression of the majority ethnic Albanian population. | |
| Thousands of UN troops have been deployed in the province to prevent a return to violence. | |
| Kosovo's ethnic Albanians want the province to become independent but its Serb minority and the government in Belgrade have opposed this. | |
| Attempts to decide the final status of Kosovo through negotiations have failed. | |
| Speaking after the breakdown of talks on Wednesday, Serbian President Boris Tadic said Belgrade would "annul" any unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo. | |
| Ethnic Albanian leaders had said they would declare independence unilaterally if the UN's 10 December deadline for negotiations passed without agreement. |