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Sat 04 Apr 2007Austria attempts Kosovo resolutionAUSTRIA:Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer is working with Serbia on a deal to grant the breakaway province of Kosovo independence in a way that is acceptable to Belgrade.Mr Gusenbauer told reporters the West had to acknowledge that Serb leaders at the moment could not endorse the independence plan proposed by UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari, and a formula was needed which did not humiliate Belgrade.