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Exterior of Kosovo government building2. Meeting of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership team with Kosovo president Fatmir Sejdiu seated at head of table3. Mid shot of Sejdiu 4. Mid shot of meeting5. Wide of news conference by...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePristina\u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior of Kosovo government building\u003cbr/\u003e2. Meeting of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership team with Kosovo president Fatmir Sejdiu seated at head of table\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid shot of Sejdiu \u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid shot of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of news conference by Skender Hyseni, Kosovo government spokesman \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Skender Hyseni, Kosovo government spokesman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"What the team of unity has already stated yesterday is that Kosovo and the people of Kosovo urgently need clarity of their future. This means that certain steps will be taken quite urgently.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Question: What are this steps?)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well the first steps inevitably is the declaration of independence and the very consequent next step is the request for formal recognition.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Hyseni at podium\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE(Albanian) Skender Hyseni, Kosovo government spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Kosovo's independence will be declared as soon as possible, sooner than May 2008.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Pan from cameraman to wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Skender Hyseni, Kosovo government spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are prepared to follow a very clear road map of our own. Kosovo is not prepared anymore to subordinate its interests to any development in a surrounding, in a neighbouring country. You know, for quite some time Kosovo did subordinate its own interest and its own priorities to some developments in the neighbouring countries. This time it's not going to happen.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Hyseni surrounded by media\u003cbr/\u003eOsojane\u003cbr/\u003e12. Serbia's minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, greeting local Serb children with cake\u003cbr/\u003e13. Children lined up\u003cbr/\u003e14. Samardzic greeting local Serbs\u003cbr/\u003e15. Samardzic seated with officials for meeting including (screen right) local Serb mayor, Radul Vulic\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Slobodan Samardzic, Serbia's minister for Kosovo:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Kosovo needs to be a place where Serbia will invest more and we are here to show to our people that we will not abandon them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pan left of officials to Vulic (far left)\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Slobodan Samardzic, Serbia's minister for Kosovo:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now it is not inevitable, because we must speak about the final status of Kosovo. He who is not ready to speak, he or she is ready for violence. We would like to avoid it and that is why on the level of Security Council we should open a new discussion about the future status, that is why nothing is inevitable.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Question: That's totally unrealistic, you know the Kosovo Albanians say the talks are over now?)\u003cbr/\u003e\"What say Kosovo Serbs it is a question, not only Albanians.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePristina\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of Kosovo Albanian students marching in independence rally\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of march, protesters chanting independence slogans\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close-up of US and Albanian flags\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE (English) Burim Balaj, student rally organiser: \u003cbr/\u003e\"All what we want is independence now, right now. We want from our leaders to do that now. And we want from United Nations community to accept that, to accept our independence now.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Protesters walking past camera\u003cbr/\u003eKosovo will declare independence from Serbia before May, a government spokesman said on Monday, as the breakaway Serbian province pressed the European Union to swiftly sign off on statehood.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The people of Kosovo urgently need clarity of their future. This means that certain steps will be taken quite urgently,\" spokesman Skender Hyseni told reporters in the provincial capital of Pristina after a meeting of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Kosovo's independence will be declared as soon as possible, sooner than May 2008,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eKosovo is widely expected to announce early in 2008 that it will formally break away from Serbia, but has vowed not to do so without EU and US approval.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials said a declaration of independence is expected sometime in January or February. \u003cbr/\u003eThat would start a 120-day internationally supervised transition, during which the US and other countries would recognise the new state and the UN would hand off administration to the EU.\u003cbr/\u003eIt remains unclear whether the province's leaders will wait until after Serbian presidential elections, which are tentatively set for January 20. \u003cbr/\u003eHyseni said Kosovo \"is only going to follow its own road map\" and would not be pressured into putting off a declaration solely because of the Serbian ballot.\u003cbr/\u003eLater Monday, Serbia's minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, planned to open a branch office on the Serb side of the ethnically divided northern city of Kosovska Mitrovica, long a flashpoint for violence between the province's ethnic Albanian majority and its minority Serbs.\u003cbr/\u003eThe opening of a Serbian government office inside Kosovo was seen as a clear territorial claim by Belgrade, which sees Kosovo as the heart of its\u003cbr/\u003eancient homeland and refuses to let it go.\u003cbr/\u003eSamardzic told reporters that independence was not inevitable, and he denounced the ethnic Albanians' refusal to prolong the deadlocked talks.\u003cbr/\u003e\"He who is not ready to speak, he or she is ready for violence,\" he told reporters in the Serb village of Osojane, where he met with locals including the local mayor.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are here to show to our people that we will not abandon them,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, at least 3-thousand cheering Kosovars jammed a square in downtown Pristina for a pro-independence rally.\u003cbr/\u003eWaving US and Albanian flags and carrying posters that read, \"Independence is the only option\" and \"Europe, show some unity,\" university students and others marched the city and gathered near the parliament building to demand statehood.\u003cbr/\u003eRally organiser Burim Balaj said: \"All what we want is independence now, right now. We want from our leaders to do that now. And we want from United Nations community to accept that, to accept our independence now.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough the province formally remains part of Serbia, it has been run by the UN and NATO since 1999, when NATO airstrikes ended a Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. \u003cbr/\u003eSerbia has offered Kosovo broad autonomy but insists it remain part of Serbian territory, and Russia has threatened to block its independence drive at the UN Security Council.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Sunday, Kosovo's leadership issued a statement pledging to refrain from violence and \"do the utmost to ensure Kosovo remains calm\" as NATO beefs up its presence in the volatile province, fearing revived hostility between the rival sides.\u003cbr/\u003eEnvoys from the EU, US and Russia reported to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week that four months of internationally mediated talks had ended in a stalemate. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Security Council is set to take up the issue on December 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