"We are so far apart," Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Lutfi Haziri told Reuters after the morning session. "The Serbs oppose the main principles of the document."
Reuters said that Kosovo Albanians are under pressure to give the Serb minority more powers, but UN mediators led by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari have rejected Serbia's demand for a separate Serb entity or autonomy for the mainly Serb north.
Belgrade suggested the preliminary UN proposal, the result of the first two rounds of talks, did not yield major progress. "That document does not contain the kind of significant shift we expected," Serb negotiator Aleksandar Simic told the press ahead of Monday's meeting.
Today, the Greek Foreign Ministry said a meeting on Kosovo would be held on Wednesday, to be attended by diplomatic officials from Balkan countries and representatives of the European Union, the United nations, NATO, and the Contact Groupa.
France Presse quoted ministry spokesman George Kumutsakos as saying that the purpose of the meeting in Athens was to intensify the exchange of views.
Greece will host the meeting given that it currently chairs the South East European Cooperation Process, a regional body comprising nine countries from the region -- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, and Serbia and Montenegro.
The Contact Group, which is comprised of the United States, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia, is an informal body which since the early 1990s has been monitoring the progress of peace efforts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.