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Serbia accepts watered-down U.N. Kosovo resolution


    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In a concession to the European Union, Serbia acquiesced Thursday in a U.N. resolution on Kosovo that dropped earlier demands by Belgrade to reopen talks on the status of its former province.

    Instead, Serbia agreed to an EU-backed dialogue with Kosovo that the nonbinding General Assembly RESOLUTION (RSL.LO)(RSL.LO)said would aim to promote cooperation. The resolution was passed by acclamation by the 192-nation assembly.

    Serbia lost control of Kosovo in 1999 when NATO waged a bombing campaign to halt killings of ethnic Albanians in a two-year counter-insurgency war. Kosovo declared independence in 2008, backed by the United States and most EU countries.

    (Editing by Christopher Wilson)