Serbia is ready for a "compromise" over Kosovo but warned that the independence for the breakaway province could destabilize Europe.

Russia has rejected a revised UN Security Council resolution that would delay independence for Kosovo to give the province's ethnic Albanian majority and Serbs more time to negotiate the future status of the Serbian territory.

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Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic says Belgrade is "ready to make a deal" on the final status of its breakaway province of Kosovo. Jeremic made the announcement after talks with his Greek counterpart Dora Bakoyannis in Athens.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried has reaffirmed the Bush administration's position that Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo must be granted independence.

Authorities in Montenegro have arrested a former Serbian government official and police commander wanted in The Hague for murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

Italian Foreign Minister Massimo d'Alema says that Serbia and leaders of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority should resume talks on the future status of the breakaway Serbian province, but only for a limited time.

The European Union and Serbia have resumed talks on closer ties, ending a 13-month freeze imposed by EU authorities in response to Serbian failure to hand over fugitive war crimes suspects thought to be hiding in the country.

Unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo could lead to the destabilization of the Balkans, a senior Bulgarian government official said Thursday.

One day after the Group of Eight (G8) summit wrapped up in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin met on June 9 with Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica on the sidelines of an economic forum in St. Petersburg. Afterward, Putin told reporters that it was "with pleasure" that he had informed Kostunica of the outcome of the G8's negotiations on the future status of Kosovo.

Serbian police say they have discovered a large cache of bullets and bomb-making material in a southern region bordering Kosovo.

U.S. President George W. Bush said yesterday during a visit to Albania that any talks on the future status of Kosovo must have the goal of "certain independence." Bush spoke to reporters in Tirana after meeting with Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha.