WASHINGTON, July 23, SPA -- Kosovo officials are to discuss the breakaway province's future with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, days after the United Nations Security Council set aside a resolution that Russia called a hidden route to independence, the Associated Press reported. The United States and the European Union said Friday they would move the forum for deciding Kosovo's status from the security council to the Contact Group on Kosovo _ which includes representatives from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia. The U.N. Security Council resolution on Kosovo's future was set aside Friday in the face of a possible Russian veto. The Washington talks also follow a comment by Kosovo's prime minister Agim Ceku suggesting that the province's parliament should adopt its own resolution setting Nov. 28 as a possible date for declaring independence. Ceku will be among a group of officials and politiciansfrom the province, including its president and the speakerof its assembly, who will meet with Rice and other U.S. officials, including national security adviser StephenHadley Monday.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/469654