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EU envoy urges Serbia, Kosovo to accelerate status talks

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BRUSSELS (AFP) — The European Union's Kosovo envoy urged Belgrade and Pristina Sunday to accelerate their talks on the future status of the Serbian province, with a December 10 deadline closing in.

"There is quite a distance to be covered if really we want to reach an agreement," warned EU envoy Wolfgang Ischinger, ahead of a round of talks in Brussels on how much autonomy Kosovo should be granted.

"After the end of what I would call an exploratory period, this is a decisive phase," said the envoy, part of an international troika with Russia and the United States supervising the status talks.

Serbian and Kosovo officials have so far made little progress in resolving the status issue.

Serbia insists the province is an integral part of its territory...

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