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Kosovo's president said on Tuesday (November 20) the breakaway Serb province would coordinate its push for independence with the United States and the EU and wanted to launch the move days after a December deadline for mediation. Wolfgang Ischinger, the German diplomat leading the so-called "troika" negotiations alongside U.S. and Russian counterparts, said earlier he was confident the session -- most likely the penultimate one -- would be productive. Ischinger said he would confer with U.S and Russian officials on whether to float a so-called "status-neutral" proposal to regulate ties between Pristina and Belgrade without pre-judging any future move to decide Kosovo's final status. The idea has its origins in a 1972 pact that normalised ties between West and East Germany without prejudging the question of unification, which only happened 18 years later after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. Some diplomats argue Serbia and Russia would agree to such a pact only if EU capitals in return gave guarantees that they would not recognise Kosovo independence in the meantime -- something most European countries would not be willing to do. Arriving in Brussels for talks with Serb officials who oppose Kosovo's independence, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu said he expected mediators to present their report on the negotiations to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as scheduled on December 10. Sejdiu said there were no alternatives to independence for the 90 percent ethnic Albanian p...