Voters consider claim on Kosovo

Serbians voted on a new constitution that would reassert the nation’s claim on Kosovo, the breakaway province whose future status is under negotiation at U.N.-brokered talks. But most of Kosovo’s residents, ethnic Albanians who want independence, were left off the voter lists for the two-day referendum.

The Serbian government says the proposed constitution consolidates democracy and the rule of law in the country, which hopes to revive membership talks with the European Union.