BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia said on Monday it would reject a European Union-brokered proposal to tackle the ethnic partition in its former province Kosovo and pleaded for time to reach a deal that would keep the country's EU membership bid on track.
It was unclear whether the EU might agree to one last push to negotiate a deal, after EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton set a Tuesday deadline for Serbia and Kosovo to accept the principles on the table after talks broke down last week.
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