Under the new plan, Serbia foresees the UN remaining in charge of security in Kosovo for at least 20 years. Kosovo would have a right to its own police force, but not a military, and would be "financially autonomous" but would not be involved in foreign affairs.
Kosovo's top ethnic-Albanian negotiator in talks with the Serbian government has already rejected the proposal as "unacceptable and unrealistic."
(AP, dpa)
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