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THE United States and most of the European Union will recognise Kosovo if the Balkan province declares independence from Serbia in early December, when last-ditch negotiations end, according to US and European officials.
The officials spoke on Monday as Serbian and Kosovo Albanian diplomats prepared to sit down this week at the United Nations for talks billed as part of a final effort to get agreement on the issue of Kosovo's independence. Its future status has fuelled a confrontation between the West and Russia, which has threatened to veto any Security Council resolution approving independence for Kosovo.
"The game plan is set," said a European diplomat. "The talks end on December 10. If there is no sense then that Serbia and Kosovo can agree on the province's future, then Kosovo will make a unilateral declaration of independence," he said, adding that "the US will recognise that independence and the Europeans, as far as they can remain united, will follow too".
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On Monday the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said: "There's going to be an independent Kosovo. It's the only solution that is potentially stabilising for the Balkans rather than destabilising for the Balkans."
Illustrating the thorniness of the issue for Europe, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France said last week that Europe must stay united on Kosovo but that Russia's position must be taken into account as well.
"Kosovo's independence is unavoidable in the long term," he said, adding that Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, "must understand that no one wants to humiliate him."
Among European countries, analysts said that Greece and Cyprus could break ranks with Washington and Brussels. Greece, a close ally of Serbia, is concerned that its neighbour, Macedonia, a former Yugoslav republic, could become unstable if its ethnic Albanians agitated for independence.
Cyprus, divided between the Turkish north and the Greek Cypriot south, fears the Kosovo example might be used by Turkish Cypriots.
With so much at stake for European unity, diplomats said all efforts would be made this week at the UN to press leaders from Kosovo and Serbia to resolve one of the last unsettled matters left from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
The New York Times
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