December 8, 2007 - 13:24 AMT
Serbia calls for prolongation of Kosovo talks
December 7, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic called on the UN Security Council to prolong terms of Kosovo status talks. However, the outcome of the negotiations should not be predetermined, he said.

"The latest round of talks ended in a failure because Albanians have an impression that they will be 'gifted' independence and all they need to do is to wait till December 10," Mr Jeremic noted.

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said "ethnic conflict can burst out if Kosovo proclaims independence unilaterally," Deutsche Welle reports.