Merkel sees no point to delay on Kosovo decision
Source: Reuters
HEILIGENDAMM, June 8 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she did not support delaying a decision on the future of the Serbian province of Kosovo, whose Albanian population are pushing for a U.N. vote on independence. "There's not point in waiting for the sake of it. We have to have a clear idea how we go forward," she said at the end of a Group of Eight summit of world leaders. French President Nicolas Sarkozy had sought to persuade Russia, which backs Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo, to agree to the region's eventual independence in exchange for a delay to a United Nations vote on the issue. "We cannot have a delay to let Belgrade and Pristina hold talks unless all the actors, notably the Russians, consider that the independence of Kosovo is an inevitable outcome," Sarkozy said.
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