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World Briefing : United Nations: Russia Rejects Kosovo Plan

[NYT - Europe]

The United States and European countries on the Security Council circulated a new resolution calling for independence for Kosovo, the breakaway province of Serbia, and delaying carrying out the plan for four months, but Russia, whose objections to a previous version led to the revision, rejected it. Kosovo has welcomed the plan and has threatened to declare independence on its own if the United Nations does not act, but Vitaly I. Churkin, Russia’s ambassador, called it “unacceptable.”.