On July 24, 2006, the meeting of the highest officials of Kosovo and Serbia was held in the Niederosterich Palace, in Vienna, Austria.

Agim were present there Çeku - prime minister of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu - president of Kosovo, Vojslav Kostunica - prime minister of Serbia, Boris Tadić - president of Serbia and other members.

As expected, no agreement was reached, but Martti Ahtisaari considers it successful due to the fact that these leaders have met face to face.

In Kosovo, this meeting was described as "the meeting of elephants". The "Vetevendosje" movement protested in Pristina against the talks.

But what happened next?

On July 27, 2006, Tomislav Nikolic, leader of the Radical Party of Serbia, threatened war if Kosovo gained independence. On July 28, 2006, the International Crisis Group publishes the report "An Army for Kosovo?", which states that Kosovo should have its own army after the status resolution, which according to them should be independence.

Meanwhile, on August 7, 2006, talks between the Kosovar and Serbian authorities continued in Vienna. The focus was on decentralization. The Albanian delegation is led by Veton Surroi. After the end of these meetings, it is said that there has been minimal progress.

On October 28 and 29, 2006, a referendum was held in Serbia on the new constitution that was drafted within a few months without public debate. In the constitution, it is underlined that Kosovo is "an indivisible part of Serbia". The International Crisis Group, in its report entitled "Serbia's New Constitution: Democracy Going Backwards", criticized the content and the way the constitution was drafted.

In December 2006, it was announced that the publication of Maarti Ahtisari's proposal for the final status of Kosovo will be postponed until January 2007, with the possibility of further postponement.

January 24, 2007: The Assembly of the Council of Europe (Council of Europe) adopts resolution 1533 regarding the final status of Kosovo. Some of the articles of the draft resolution that was presented to representatives from all over Europe were removed because some representatives from Serbia, Russia and Greece voted against their inclusion in the final resolution. One of the articles was about independence, where it was said that Kosovo should get independence to ensure peace in the Balkans. The resolution that was adopted does not contain the word independence, but states that a negotiated solution is preferred by this council but if this solution is not reached then it is necessary that the final solution be imposed.

January 26, 2007: Ahtisaari meeting with the so-called Contact Group consisting of the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia. There was no announcement for the media and the meeting was behind closed doors, but it is reported that Ahtisaari has informed that he will propose conditional independence.[19][20] In all the countries of the world it is announced that Kosovo will get conditional independence.[21] The media reports that Russia is skeptical about Ahtisaari's plan. The Dutch NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, says that NATO supports Ahtisaari's plan regarding the status of Kosovo.

February 2, 2007: Martti Ahtisaari submits his proposal in Belgrade and Pristina. Although the word independence is not mentioned at all, even the president of Serbia, Boris Tadić, is of the opinion that this proposal leads Kosovo towards independence.

February 10, 2007: The "Self-Determination" movement organizes a protest in Pristina against Ahtissar's package, which they think does not deserve Kosovo's independence. Some of the protesters started to fight with the police (consisting of Kosovar and international ones). The police responded with violence against all the protesters. Dozens injured. On February 11, it was announced that two (Vetevendosje says three) protesters have died from the wounds they received the day before from police violence. The dead are Arben Xheladini (1972) by Prishtina and Mon Balaj (1976) from Besiana. KMLDNJ condemns police violence against protesters and calls what the police did a crime. KMLDNJ together with the official Pristina demand extensive investigation of what happened. ¨ After the protests at the offices of the "Vetevendosje" movement, the leader of the movement, Albin Kurti, is arrested.

February 12, 2007: Kosovo's Interior Minister, Fatmir Rexhepi, resigns after the violence in the February 10 protests organized by Vetëvendosje where two young Albanians died. He says that he felt a moral responsibility, even though neither the UNMIK police nor the KPS are under his control. On this same day, the Council for the Protection of Freedoms and Human Rights (KMLDNJ) visits Albin Kurti in detention.

February 13, 2007: Mon Balaj is buried in Besiana (formerly Podujevë). KMLDNJ demands the dismissal of UNMIK's chief of police, Stephen Curtis.

February 14, 2007: Stephen Curtis, chief of international police in Kosovo, resigns at the request of chief administrator Joachim Ruecker.

February 21, 2007: New negotiations in Vienna aimed at finding a compromise. After these negotiations, it is announced that nothing has been achieved and that the positions of both parties are the same: the Albanians want independence and the Serbs offer autonomy. Both Ahtisaari and his assistants had signaled that these negotiations will not bring anything. Albert Rohan, a member of Ahtisaari's team, told the BBC that these negotiations are the last chance for compromise.

March 3, 2007: Peaceful protests in Pristina organized by the Vetëvendosje movement.

March 10, 2007: In Vienna, Austria, talks on the final status of Kosovo between Albanians and Serbs end without an agreement. Present were the leaders of Kosovo (Fatmir Sejdiu, Agim Ceku, Kole Berisha and others) and Serbia (Boris Tadic, Vojislav Kostunica and others) as well as the UN envoy for status, Martti Ahtisaari. Ahtissari expressed regret that no agreement has been reached. He also announced that the final document on the status of Kosovo will be sent to the UN Security Council at the end of this month.

March 15, 2007: Albert Rohan, an associate of Martti Ahtisaari, submits Ahtisaari's proposal for the status of Kosovo to the UN. According to the sources of the Reuters news agency, the plan directly proposes independence for Kosovo.

March 26, 2007: Martti Ahtisaari sends the final report to the UN Security Council where he says that Kosovo should become independent. Nicholas Burns, deputy foreign minister of the USA, says that the USA supports Ahtisaari's plan and thinks that Kosovo should become independent. The Serbs continue to oppose the plan. Russia made statements that could be interpreted as against independence but did not mention the use of the veto.

March 29, 2007: The European Parliament adopts a resolution expressing support for supervised independence for Kosovo. 490 votes in favor, 80 against and with 87 abstentions.

April 3, 2007: The review of Ahtisaari's plan in the UN Security Council begins. Behind closed doors, the special envoy for Kosovo, Marti Ahtisari, was heard unveiling the plan that is expected to give Kosovo supervised independence. It was planned that Fatmir Sejdiu would also speak, but after the protests of Serbia and Russia, it was decided that he would not speak and that his speech would be read by PSSP Joachim Ruecker. The nationalist prime minister of Serbia, Vosjlav Kostunica, opposed the plan and demanded negotiations and new chief negotiators. Western countries such as the USA, Great Britain, France are supporting Ahtisaari's plan.

April 5, 2007: The Assembly of Kosovo approves a statement on the determination of the status of Kosovo, which supports the proposal of chief negotiator Martti Ahtisaari.

April 13, 2007: The UN Security Council announces that it has decided to send a fact-finding mission to Kosovo at the end of April at the request of Russia, which has the right to veto in this council.

April 17, 2007: US Deputy Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, said that Washington considered independence the most appropriate option for Kosovo and that he expected the Security Council to approve the independence plan presented by UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari. He also added that the autonomy offered by Serbia should have been offered 12 years ago and not now. Kai Eide, a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway in Pristina, says that Norway supports Ahtisaari's plan for independence and that he has no intention of becoming a mediator as requested by the Serbs.

April 25, 2007: The fact-gathering mission consisting of the 15 ambassadors/deputy ambassadors to the UN of the member states of the Security Council arrives in Brussels where there are meetings, among others, with the Secretary General of NATO Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and officials of the European Union . Scheffer tells the ambassadors that NATO supports Ahtisaari's plan to grant independence to Kosovo. The ambassadors came to Kosovo following the request of Russia, which has the right of veto in the UNSC, to be informed more closely about the situation of minorities. Participants are the ambassadors of the following countries: USA, France, Great Britain, China, Congo, Ghana, South Africa, Qatar, Indonesia, Slovakia, Panama, Russia, Belgium, Italy and Peru.

Developments continue until the declaration of independence on February 17, 2008.