Serbia's Prime Minister has called on the UN to back more talks on resolving Kosovo's future.
A report released yesterday said that four months of last-ditch talks on the future of the Albanian-majority province had failed to yield agreement.
Serbia says it will not give up Kosovo, while being prepared to grant it extensive autonomy, while the Kosovans insist on independence.
Britain, France, Germany and Italy, the four European members of the contact group, have said that more talking on Kosovo is futile.
The US And much of the EU back independence but Russia supports Serbia in opposing a separate state. This means deadlock in a 19 December security council debate.
Serbia has warned it would defend Kosovo with 'all available means if Albanian leaders unilaterally declared independence.'
Kosovo has been under UN rule since 1999 when NATO drove out forces of then Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic which were carrying out a brutal crackdown on ethnic Albanians.
