PRISTINA, Serbia, April 28 (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members wound up a fact-finding mission to Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo on Saturday, saying they would deliberate on a disputed proposal for its independence without "setting deadlines".

The mission visited Kosovo at the suggestion of permanent Council member Russia, which backs Serbia in opposing independence for its ethnic Albanian-majority province, as proposed by a U.N. mediator after a year of fruitless talks.

"The objective is that we as a Council ... should be fully informed before taking on our responsibilities," said Johan Verbeke of Belgium. "We are not setting deadlines."

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