A preliminary decision to send a 1,800-strong police force to the breakaway region of Serbia was adopted in December after long-running talks failed to yield a compromise between the Albanian majority seeking independence and Belgrade, which is only prepared to grant the province broad autonomy.
After the failed negotiations, the United States and its European allies said further negotiations were pointless, and that the region's fate should be determined by the European Union and NATO.
The foreign ministers of Britain, Germany, Italy and France - members of the Contact Group on Kosovo, which also comprises the United States and Russia - along with the EU's Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and foreign policy chief Javier Solana, will meet at Brdo pri Kranju, an estate near Ljubljana, the agency said citing the Foreign Ministry of Slovenia, which currently holds the EU presidency.
Media reports in Brussels said on Tuesday that EU countries could wait until February to decide when a police mission could be deployed in Kosovo, so as not to influence elections in Serbia scheduled for January 20 and a possible runoff on February 3.
Kosovo's newly elected prime minister, Hasim Taci, said last week that the breakaway province would unilaterally declare its independence in a few weeks.
The Beta agency said citing diplomatic sources in Brussels that the four European states and the U.S. were likely to recognize Kosovo's sovereignty in February or March, with other EU members to follow suit.
Russia, Serbia's longtime ally, has insisted that Belgrade and Pristina must continue to try to reach a compromise and threatened to veto moves at the UN Security Council to support the independence of the Serbian territory. Moscow has argued it could set a precedent for other breakaway regions in Europe and former Soviet republics.
A senior Russian lawmaker reiterated earlier on Wednesday that proclaiming Kosovo an independent state would be a violation of international law.
"Russia will by no means recognize this. Its position will remain unchanged," Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the State Duma international affairs committee, told reporters.
"We will block decisions recognizing Kosovo's sovereignty at the Security Council," Kosachyov said adding that Kosovo had no chance of becoming a UN member even if separate Western states backed its independence.
The Security Council is to meet later today to review the work of the UN's interim mission in Kosovo, which has been deployed in the region since the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia ended a conflict between Albanian and Serb forces in 1999, training local police force and fulfilling administrative tasks.
