UNITED NATIONS (AP) - More than a year after Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence, the U.N. Security Council remained deadlocked Monday on whether the U.N.-administered territory should be recognized as an independent nation or returned to Serb rule.

Serbia’s President Boris Tadic called Kosovo’s declaration an illegal attempt "to forcibly partition a member state of the United Nations against its will and without the consent of the Security Council."

Tadic called for new negotiations on Kosovo’s future and said his country will never recognize its independence. He said an "infinitesimally small" number of Kosovo Serbs and other minorities are returning to Kosovo, and he accused "the ethnic Albanian mafia in Kosovo" of specializing "in the trafficking of narcotics, human beings and weapons."