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Ex-Kosovo officials allowed to return home to await UN contempt of court trial, The Associated Press
May 14, 2008 on 3:49 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal says a former Kosovo government minister and his deputy can return home to wait for their contempt of court trial. Astrit Haraqija and Bajrush Morina have pleaded innocent to trying to pressure a witness against testifying in the trial of former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. Despite the […]
May 16, 2008 on 4:49 am | In In Focus, News in English, Republic of Srpska | No Comments
BELGRADE, BANJA LUKA — The former commander of the JNA’s barracks in Tuzla says that the attack on a JNA column in 1992 was organized with the support of the authorities. Mile Dubajić, testifying at the trial of Ilija Jurišić at the Belgrade District Court, said the barracks in Tuzla were due to be vacated by […]
BELGRADE, BANJA LUKA — The former commander of the JNA’s barracks in Tuzla says that the attack on a JNA column in 1992 was organized with the support of the authorities. Mile Dubajić, testifying at the trial of Ilija Jurišić at the Belgrade District Court, said the barracks in Tuzla were due to be vacated by […]
May 16, 2008 on 4:47 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
TIRANA — The Albanian Prosecution says it will cooperate with the Hague should it wish to investigate Carla Del Ponte’s claims about the trade in human organs there. “The Albanian Prosecutor’s Office is prepared to cooperate with the Hague by offering help to judges coming to Albania, or by collecting additional information on the basis of […]
TIRANA — The Albanian Prosecution says it will cooperate with the Hague should it wish to investigate Carla Del Ponte’s claims about the trade in human organs there. “The Albanian Prosecutor’s Office is prepared to cooperate with the Hague by offering help to judges coming to Albania, or by collecting additional information on the basis of […]
May 16, 2008 on 4:39 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
16 May 2008 Pristina _ The United States has rebuffed demands by China, India and Russia for resuming talks on Kosovo’s status, arguing it has already been settled. “I guess we have a news flash for everybody, the status of Kosovo has been resolved. It’s an independent state,” Sean McCormack, the spokesman of U.S. State Department […]
16 May 2008 Pristina _ The United States has rebuffed demands by China, India and Russia for resuming talks on Kosovo’s status, arguing it has already been settled. “I guess we have a news flash for everybody, the status of Kosovo has been resolved. It’s an independent state,” Sean McCormack, the spokesman of U.S. State Department […]
May 16, 2008 on 4:31 am | In In Focus, News in English | No Comments
From The Economist print edition What Serbia’s election says about the European Union’s enlargement Illustration by Peter Schrank A BRITISH tabloid set a high standard for bombast when it once took credit for the re-election of a Tory government with the headline: “It’s The Sun Wot Won It”. This week European Union leaders were taking credit for another […]
From The Economist print edition What Serbia’s election says about the European Union’s enlargement Illustration by Peter Schrank A BRITISH tabloid set a high standard for bombast when it once took credit for the re-election of a Tory government with the headline: “It’s The Sun Wot Won It”. This week European Union leaders were taking credit for another […]
May 16, 2008 on 4:20 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
by Thomas Fleming I have just returned from Serbia, where I presented a paper at a conference on the Kosovo question. I left only a day before the election and had the opportunity to get some idea of public opinion. For the Serbs, the issue was and is and will be, so long as there are Serbs, […]
by Thomas Fleming I have just returned from Serbia, where I presented a paper at a conference on the Kosovo question. I left only a day before the election and had the opportunity to get some idea of public opinion. For the Serbs, the issue was and is and will be, so long as there are Serbs, […]
May 16, 2008 on 4:16 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - May 12, 2008 Written by: Andy Wilcoxson Fred Abrahams, senior emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch, told reporters last Monday: “Serious and credible allegations have emerged about horrible abuses in Kosovo and Albania after the war.” He was referring to fresh allegations that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had […]
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - May 12, 2008 Written by: Andy Wilcoxson Fred Abrahams, senior emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch, told reporters last Monday: “Serious and credible allegations have emerged about horrible abuses in Kosovo and Albania after the war.” He was referring to fresh allegations that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had […]
May 16, 2008 on 4:14 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
by Srdja Trifkovic Last Sunday night, as the results of Serbia’s parliamentary elections became known, the country’s President Boris Tadić made a remarkable statement. “I warn the parties that have lost this election,” he declared, “not to play games with the will of the citizens and try to form a government that would take Serbia back […]
by Srdja Trifkovic Last Sunday night, as the results of Serbia’s parliamentary elections became known, the country’s President Boris Tadić made a remarkable statement. “I warn the parties that have lost this election,” he declared, “not to play games with the will of the citizens and try to form a government that would take Serbia back […]
May 15, 2008 on 7:06 am | In In Focus, News in English, SUC News | No Comments
ROUND TABLE: REHABILITATION OF POLITICAL CONVICTS May 20, 2008 at 10am Law School, University of Belgrade Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 67 Serbian Unity Congress (SUC, Washington), Studenica Foundation from San Francisco (first diaspora foundation) and Serbian Unity Congress - Austria invite you to the Round table themed “Rehabilitation of political convicts”. Problem of rehabilitation will […]
ROUND TABLE: REHABILITATION OF POLITICAL CONVICTS May 20, 2008 at 10am Law School, University of Belgrade Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 67 Serbian Unity Congress (SUC, Washington), Studenica Foundation from San Francisco (first diaspora foundation) and Serbian Unity Congress - Austria invite you to the Round table themed “Rehabilitation of political convicts”. Problem of rehabilitation will […]
May 15, 2008 on 4:24 am | In In Focus, News in English | 1 Comment
BELGRADE — President Boris Tadić says he is to open talks with the SPS because they share the same ideology as the Democratic Party. Boris Tadić (FoNet, archive) The “For a European Serbia” list was beginning talks with the SPS-Associated Pensioners’ Party (PUPS)-United Serbia (JS) coalition, and at this particular moment in time there was […]
BELGRADE — President Boris Tadić says he is to open talks with the SPS because they share the same ideology as the Democratic Party. Boris Tadić (FoNet, archive) The “For a European Serbia” list was beginning talks with the SPS-Associated Pensioners’ Party (PUPS)-United Serbia (JS) coalition, and at this particular moment in time there was […]
May 15, 2008 on 4:18 am | In In Focus, News in English | No Comments
BELGRADE, May 14 (Xinhua) — Serbian socialists, emerging as the kingmakers for the next government, have yet to decide which bloc to join as both nationalists and pro-Europeans have extended invitations. Deputy leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Zarko Obradovic told local news network B92 that the party has still not reached an agreement […]
BELGRADE, May 14 (Xinhua) — Serbian socialists, emerging as the kingmakers for the next government, have yet to decide which bloc to join as both nationalists and pro-Europeans have extended invitations. Deputy leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Zarko Obradovic told local news network B92 that the party has still not reached an agreement […]
May 15, 2008 on 4:15 am | In In Focus, News in English | No Comments
VIENNA — Croatia’s former deputy defense minister is threatening to make public evidence of breaches of the arms embargo during the Yugoslav wars. Vladimir Zagorec is faced with extradition from Austria to the Croatian authorities for embezzling state funds, after his appeal against the court’s decision to extradite him was turned down. He told Vienna weekly News […]
VIENNA — Croatia’s former deputy defense minister is threatening to make public evidence of breaches of the arms embargo during the Yugoslav wars. Vladimir Zagorec is faced with extradition from Austria to the Croatian authorities for embezzling state funds, after his appeal against the court’s decision to extradite him was turned down. He told Vienna weekly News […]
May 15, 2008 on 3:59 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
BRUSSELS (AP)–Serbia opposes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plan to train Kosovo’s security forces because Belgrade doesn’t recognize the new state, Serbian army commander Lt. Gen. Zdravko Ponos said Wednesday. But the pro-Western general also said despite disagreements over Kosovo with most NATO nations, Serbia would continue cooperating closely with the alliance in reforming its own […]
BRUSSELS (AP)–Serbia opposes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plan to train Kosovo’s security forces because Belgrade doesn’t recognize the new state, Serbian army commander Lt. Gen. Zdravko Ponos said Wednesday. But the pro-Western general also said despite disagreements over Kosovo with most NATO nations, Serbia would continue cooperating closely with the alliance in reforming its own […]
May 15, 2008 on 3:58 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
YEKATERINBURG, Russia - China, India and Russia’s foreign ministers called on Thursday for a renewal of talks between Serbia’s leaders and Kosovo on the status of the disputed territory. ‘Russia, India and China call for the renewal of talks between Belgrade and Pristina within the framework of international law and for agreement between them on all […]
YEKATERINBURG, Russia - China, India and Russia’s foreign ministers called on Thursday for a renewal of talks between Serbia’s leaders and Kosovo on the status of the disputed territory. ‘Russia, India and China call for the renewal of talks between Belgrade and Pristina within the framework of international law and for agreement between them on all […]
May 15, 2008 on 3:44 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
Evitsa Dzhovevich was miraculously released from an Albanian concentration camp. She hasn’t left her apartment with her daughter Militsa in two years. KP journalists trace the scandalous book by Carla Del Ponte, prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [photo] Aleksander KOTS, Dmitry STEPSHIN — 14.05.2008 Final installment. See previous installments from May 12, 13. General’s […]
Evitsa Dzhovevich was miraculously released from an Albanian concentration camp. She hasn’t left her apartment with her daughter Militsa in two years. KP journalists trace the scandalous book by Carla Del Ponte, prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [photo] Aleksander KOTS, Dmitry STEPSHIN — 14.05.2008 Final installment. See previous installments from May 12, 13. General’s […]
May 14, 2008 on 4:55 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
RBC, 14.05.2008, Yekaterinburg - Kosovo’s secession from Serbia should be reconsidered, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists in Yekaterinburg today. He believes that the fact that the province was separated from Serbia unilaterally runs counter to international rules. The Minister also pointed out that the recent elections in Serbia demonstrated the country’s growing commitment […]
RBC, 14.05.2008, Yekaterinburg - Kosovo’s secession from Serbia should be reconsidered, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists in Yekaterinburg today. He believes that the fact that the province was separated from Serbia unilaterally runs counter to international rules. The Minister also pointed out that the recent elections in Serbia demonstrated the country’s growing commitment […]
May 14, 2008 on 4:50 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
BELGRADE — The local elections in Kosovo were just another example of manipulation of the local Serbs, V-P of the Serb National Council Rada Trajković has told B92. Trajković said that the work of the local assemblies would have no effect, as the authorities in Priština had the support of the international community. “Well, I think everything […]
BELGRADE — The local elections in Kosovo were just another example of manipulation of the local Serbs, V-P of the Serb National Council Rada Trajković has told B92. Trajković said that the work of the local assemblies would have no effect, as the authorities in Priština had the support of the international community. “Well, I think everything […]
May 14, 2008 on 4:48 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
Serbian government started to invest in Kosovo Serb enclaves to prevent their integration into Kosovo’s society and institutions, Pristina’s daily Zeri said on Tuesday. The paper says the government in Belgrade announced recently its plans to invest 400 million euros in Kosovo Serb enclaves through capital investments in infrastructure. Notwithstanding the declaration of independence by the authorities […]
Serbian government started to invest in Kosovo Serb enclaves to prevent their integration into Kosovo’s society and institutions, Pristina’s daily Zeri said on Tuesday. The paper says the government in Belgrade announced recently its plans to invest 400 million euros in Kosovo Serb enclaves through capital investments in infrastructure. Notwithstanding the declaration of independence by the authorities […]
May 14, 2008 on 4:46 am | In In Focus, News in English | No Comments
BELGRADE — Instead of the expected tripartite meeting between the SPS, DSS-NS and SRS, a meeting has begun between the SPS and the DSS-NS over forming a new government. Ivica Dačić (FoNet, archive) According to B92’s source, Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) leader Ivica Dačić will only listen to the Serb Radical Party (SRS) and […]
BELGRADE — Instead of the expected tripartite meeting between the SPS, DSS-NS and SRS, a meeting has begun between the SPS and the DSS-NS over forming a new government. Ivica Dačić (FoNet, archive) According to B92’s source, Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) leader Ivica Dačić will only listen to the Serb Radical Party (SRS) and […]
May 14, 2008 on 4:43 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | 2 Comments
PEĆ — Charges have been brought against 4 Serbs from Goraždevac for attacking bodyguards belonging to UNMIK and KFOR Chiefs Joachim Ruecker and Xavier de Marnhac. The District Prosecution in Peć has charged Milić Milićević, Milivoje Zdravković, Radojko Dunić and Dušan Manojlović. The charges refer to an incident on December 7 last year, when a group of […]
PEĆ — Charges have been brought against 4 Serbs from Goraždevac for attacking bodyguards belonging to UNMIK and KFOR Chiefs Joachim Ruecker and Xavier de Marnhac. The District Prosecution in Peć has charged Milić Milićević, Milivoje Zdravković, Radojko Dunić and Dušan Manojlović. The charges refer to an incident on December 7 last year, when a group of […]
May 14, 2008 on 4:38 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
Aleksander KOTS, Dmitry STEPSHIN. Photos by the authors — 12.05.2008 After Kosovo declared independence, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carla Del Ponte raucously quit her position at The Hague. She slammed the door so loudly behind her that the ceiling plaster cracked at parliaments across the European Union. After her […]
Aleksander KOTS, Dmitry STEPSHIN. Photos by the authors — 12.05.2008 After Kosovo declared independence, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carla Del Ponte raucously quit her position at The Hague. She slammed the door so loudly behind her that the ceiling plaster cracked at parliaments across the European Union. After her […]
Ex-Kosovo officials allowed to return home to await UN contempt of court trial, The Associated PressTHE HAGUE, Netherlands: The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal says a former Kosovo government minister and his deputy can return home to wait for their contempt of court trial. Astrit Haraqija and Bajrush Morina have pleaded innocent to trying to pressure a witness against testifying in the trial of former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. Despite the […]
May 14, 2008 on 3:35 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
By Omar Khalifa in Belgrade The common wish among refugees in Serbia’s Mirijevo camp is to return home to Kosovo In 1999, more than 800,000 principally ethnic Albanians were expelled or fled Kosovo after an onslaught by forces of Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia. Nato forces reversed the flow when their Kosovo Force (KFor) troops […]
By Omar Khalifa in Belgrade The common wish among refugees in Serbia’s Mirijevo camp is to return home to Kosovo In 1999, more than 800,000 principally ethnic Albanians were expelled or fled Kosovo after an onslaught by forces of Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia. Nato forces reversed the flow when their Kosovo Force (KFor) troops […]
May 13, 2008 on 3:34 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | 1 Comment
Kosovo declared its independence. Surely, this is a victory for NATO, the EU, and the United States of America. Or is it? Bill Clinton in the 1990’s decided to join the legions of NATO to invade the Balkans. This was nothing more than a ploy to turn the media’s attention away from Monica Lewinsky. Serbia had […]
Kosovo declared its independence. Surely, this is a victory for NATO, the EU, and the United States of America. Or is it? Bill Clinton in the 1990’s decided to join the legions of NATO to invade the Balkans. This was nothing more than a ploy to turn the media’s attention away from Monica Lewinsky. Serbia had […]
May 13, 2008 on 3:26 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
From the June/July 2008 Trumpet Print Edition » By Ron Fraser Nations have personalities. It’s a fact clearly documented by history, but which few people talk about. Each nation has its own innate strengths, talents and peculiar abilities—each has its own weaknesses. Given a nation’s historic tendency to react in a given way under certain stimuli, one […]
From the June/July 2008 Trumpet Print Edition » By Ron Fraser Nations have personalities. It’s a fact clearly documented by history, but which few people talk about. Each nation has its own innate strengths, talents and peculiar abilities—each has its own weaknesses. Given a nation’s historic tendency to react in a given way under certain stimuli, one […]
May 13, 2008 on 3:22 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English | No Comments
The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) continued to monitor suspected terrorist activity with the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG). Officials believed that a few of the more than 400 NGOs operating in Kosovo were involved in suspicious activities, and sought to prevent extremists from using NGOs to gain a foothold in Kosovo. Consequently, municipalities […]
Next Page » The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) continued to monitor suspected terrorist activity with the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG). Officials believed that a few of the more than 400 NGOs operating in Kosovo were involved in suspicious activities, and sought to prevent extremists from using NGOs to gain a foothold in Kosovo. Consequently, municipalities […]
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