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U.N. resolution on Kosovo circulated (AP)
Filed: May 11th 2007: World

Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin gets off a bus as he visits the ethnicaly mixed village of Brestovik, Serbia in April 2007. Western powers on Friday introduced a resolution in the Security Council backing a UN plan calling for Kosovo's independence from Serbia despite stiff opposition from veto-wielding Russia.(AFP/File/Ermal Meta)AP - The United States and European Union nations circulated a U.N. resolution Friday endorsing independence for Kosovo under international supervision despite strong objections from Russia which wants new negotiations between the province’s majority Albanians and minority Serbs.

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