Ratko Mladic absent d'une audience devant le TPIY

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10.11.11
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L'ancien chef militaire des Serbes de Bosnie, Ratko Mladic, 69 ans, a annoncé jeudi 10 novembre qu'il n'assisterait pas à une audience prévue dans l'après-midi devant le Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY).

"Je ne suis pas en mesure d'assister aux procédures devant la cour ce jour en raison d'une maladie", a-t-il indiqué dans un document publié par le TPIY. "Je renonce à mon droit à être présent devant la cour ce jour et donne mon consentement à ce que la procédure continue en mon absence, mais en présence de mon avocat", a-t-il ajouté....more...
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http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/11/10/ratko-mladic-absent-d-une-audience-devant-le-tpiy_1602069_3214.html

NATO troops back off from ethnic Serbs blockading border post

deutsche welle
KOSOVO

22.10.2011
NATO peacekeepers have retreated from a confrontation with ethnic Kosovo Serbs blockading border posts. The troops had been set to remove barriers built by protesters angry at a handover of frontier controls to Pristina.

NATO soldiers retreated from a tense stand-off on Saturday as they tried to dismantle a barrier erected by ethnic Kosovo Serbs.

Serbs in northern Kosovo had erected 16 barricades on roads leading to Brnjak and Jarinje after Kosovo authorities said in July they would replace ethnic Serb customs officers at the border with its own staff and EU officials....more...
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15480187,00.html

NATO begins dismantling Serb barricade in northern Kosovo

deutsche welle
KOSOVO

20.10.2011
NATO-led troops have fired tear gas to disperse angry Serb crowds manning roadblocks at a contested border crossing in northern Kosovo. The soldiers have used armored vehicles to remove the barriers.

NATO troops in full riot gear moved in the early hours of Thursday to dismantle makeshift roadblocks set up by Kosovo Serbs in northern Kosovo....more....
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15474510,00.html

Ailing Ratko Mladic Misses Court Appearance

radio free europe
November 10, 2011
Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic says he is too ill to attend a war crimes court hearing at which he is scheduled to enter a plea to a fresh count of multiple killings.....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/sick_ratko_mladic_misses_court_appearance/24387062.html

Police Say Serb Injured In Kosovo Clash Dies

radio free europe
November 10, 2011

Police and hospital officials say an ethnic Serb injured by gunfire during a clash between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo's north has died.
Two other injury victims, including a policeman, are still being treated.
Police spokesman Besim Hoti said Savo Mojsic died in a hospital in the Serb-run part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica on November 10 after a three-hour surgery....more..
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http://www.rferl.org/content/police_say_serb_injured_kosovo_dies/24386488.html

Russian Diplomat Criticized For Speech At Serbian Opposition Rally

radio free europe
November 02, 2011

BELGRADE -- The Serbian ruling party has criticized a speech by the Russian ambassador to Belgrade at a nationalist party rally as meddling by Moscow in Serbia's internal affairs, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
Six weeks after he blasted Serbian politicians and intellectuals at a Belgrade security forum for leaving it to Russia to defend Serbian interests abroad, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin praised the nationalist Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) at a rally in Belgrade on October 29....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/russian_diplomat_criticized_for_speech_at_serbian_opposition_rally/24379085.html

Commander of UN forces 'aware Srebrenica massacre was about to happen'

telegraph
The Dutch commander of UN forces charged with protecting Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica was aware that the massacre was about to happen, an army surgeon who allegedly witnessed the killings has claimed in a new television documentary.

By Bruno Waterfield
5:41 PM GMT 08 Nov 2011
Col Thom Karremans has always denied that he knew that 8,000 Muslim men and boys he saw being taken away by Bosnian Serbs were going to be murdered....more...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/8877056/Commander-of-UN-forces-aware-Srebrenica-massacre-was-about-to-happen.html

Mladic’s Poor Health Is New Focus at The Hague

ny times
By MARLISE SIMONS

Published: November 5, 2011
THE HAGUE — Each time Ratko Mladic has come to court, he has complained about his health — his fatigue, his stroke-weakened right arm, his kidney pains — emphasizing his ailments as if they were the central focus of his trial on war crimes and genocide charges.
But as the extent of health problems of Mr. Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general, has become more apparent after five months in custody, court officials worry that they may well shape the case against him, their most high-profile defendant....more...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/world/europe/ratko-mladics-poor-health-is-new-focus-of-his-war-crimes-trial.html?ref=bosniaandherzegovina

In Kosovo, Smuggling Fosters Unusual Ethnic Cooperation

ny times
By DOREEN CARVAJAL

Published: October 24, 2011
MITROVICA, Kosovo — For three months, this gritty mining town has been a hot spot of Balkan ethnic tension ominous enough to prompt new deployments of armed NATO peacekeepers and action by the European Union to slow Serbia’s long-sought bid for membership.
In the long siege at makeshift gravel barricades, ethnic Serbs hurled rocks toward ethnic Albanians on the other side of the Ibar River, and this summer, hooded men in shorts and sneakers firebombed a border-control station, stoking fears among Western powers that ethnic clashes could spin out of control in northern Kosovo....more...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/world/europe/in-balkans-smuggling-forges-a-rare-unity.html?_r=1&ref=albania

Nato unleashes tear gas at Serbs

telegraph
2:58 PM BST 20 Oct 2011
Nato troops unleashed volleys of tear gas at Serbs trying to stop them dismantling barricades in northern Kosovo near the border with Serbia, leaving dozens needing treatment.
For nearly three months, Kosovo Serbs have been blocking roads to stop the country's ethnic Albanian leadership from extending its control over the part of the country populated mostly by ethnic Serbs....more...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/kosovo/8838836/Nato-unleashes-tear-gas-at-Serbs.html

Serbia recommended for EU membership but needs to sort out Kosovo

telegraph
Serbia has been given the coveted status of becoming a candidate for EU membership as long as Belgrade makes progress on settling a border dispute with Kosovo, a breakaway former Serbian province.

By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels
4:59 PM BST 12 Oct 2011
The European Commission on Wednesday recommended Serbia for EU membership and if the Kosovo issue is settled by December then entry negotiations will begin next year....more...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/8822558/Serbia-recommended-for-EU-membership-but-needs-to-sort-out-Kosovo.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIuUgrXgFY&feature=related

telegraph.co.uk
By Bruno Waterfield
 11:57 AM BST 11 Oct 2011
Ratko Mladic has been admitted to hospital with pneumonia, raising new concerns that the former Bosnian-Serb general will not live long enough to face trial for alleged genocide and war crimes.

 Gen. Mladic., 68, was admitted to an undisclosed hospital on Monday after weekend reports that he had collapsed in his cell in the Scheveningen prison where UN war crimes prisoners are held....more...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bosnia/8819812/Ratko-Mladic-in-hospital-with-pneumonia.html

Blocked, Northern Kosovo

the economist
An impasse that could turn nasty
SERBIA’S government has lost control of the Serbian-majority north of Kosovo. The roads are barricaded and locals are rowing with NATO peacekeepers and European Union police....more....
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http://www.economist.com/node/21534834

Serbian Military Call-Up Notices Spark Sharp Backlash

radio free europe
September 21, 2011

By Ljudmila Cvetkovic
BELGRADE -- Serbs are expressing alarm at reports that the Defense Ministry is distributing notices telling people to join the military reserves and report for basic training.
The reports come as tensions with neighboring Kosovo -- formerly a Serbian province, and whose independence Belgrade does not recognize -- have been running high amid a sometimes violent dispute over border crossings.
The Belgrade Helsinki Committee for Human Rights announced this week that an undetermined number of men had received the notices....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia_military_callup_notices_spark_sharp_backlash/24335635.html

Serbian Premier Murder Convict Alleges High-Level Conspirators

radio free europe
September 21, 2011

BELGRADE -- The revelation that a Serb convicted of plotting the 2003 assassination of pro-Western Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has named several high-ranking politicians as having knowledge of plans for the killing has caused a media storm, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
Milos Simovic told prosecutors one year ago in a signed affidavit -- which was only recently released to the Serbian media -- that several high-ranking nationalist figures, including then Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, knew about the preparations for the assassination....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/djindjic_assassination_conspirators/24335476.html

Croatian companies shall sue Serbia if it sells their property

blic online
STATUS OF BUSINESS FACILITIES OF ENTERPRISES OF SFRY NOT SOLVED YET

Suzana Lakić

23. 09. 2011. - 02:02h
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A deadline until which companies from Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia/Herzegovina with part of property that remained in Serbia after disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are to solve the property relations with our country expires in a week time....more...
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http://english.blic.rs/Economy/8032/Croatian-companies-shall-sue-Serbia-if-it-sells-their-property

Veselin Lecic might reveal political background of Djindjic’s assassination

balkan insight
HEARING OF ARRESTED FORMER JSO OFFICERS

Tamara Marković-Subota/Vuk Z. Cvijić

22. 09. 2011. - 02:02h
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Former assistant to the JSO security chief-of-staff Veselin Lecic arrested the day before yesterday with another three of his former colleagues because of armed riot of that unit in 2001 might be a key factor in directing the investigation to revealing of political background of Zoran Djindjic’s assassination....more...
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http://english.blic.rs/In-Focus/8028/Veselin-Lecic-might-reveal-political-background-of-Djindjics-assassination

Leading businessmen in Serbia to found movement soon

blic online
ACTION FOR RENEWAL

Nataša Latković

23. 09. 2011. - 02:02h
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A group of successful Serbian businessmen shall found a movement soon. As ‘Blic’ learns among the founders there shall be Dragoljub Vukadinovic (‘Metalac’ President), Branislav Grujic (‘PSP Farman’), Nikola Pavlicic (‘Tarket-Sintelon’ Honorary President), Mirko Todorovic (‘Todor’ owner), Dragoljub Lekic (‘Vitro Group’ General Director) and also the Union of Entrepreneurs of Serbia and Backa Palanka Business Club....more...
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http://english.blic.rs/News/8031/Leading-businessmen-in-Serbia-to-found-movement-soon

Serbia wants special status for Kosovo north

blic online
BORIS TADIC AT UN SESSION IN NEW YORK

Tamara Spaić

22. 09. 2011. - 02:02h
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Serbia President Boris Tadic shall try at meetings with world leaders in New York to get their support for the settlement of the current crisis at customs checkpoints with implementation of Ban-Ki-Moon’s plan from 2008, as sources close to Tadic confirmed to ‘Blic’. It is believed that would be just a beginning for the international community to recognize ‘the north as something special’ and an introduction to autonomy or even partition....more...
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http://english.blic.rs/News/8027/Serbia-wants-special-status-for-Kosovo-north

Ex- Yu States Agree to Divide Assets Worth $65m

balkan insight
21 SEP 2011 / 16:26

An agreement has been reached in Sarajevo on the division of diplomatic properties of the former socialist Yugoslavia.

Vecernje Novosti

The handover of 44 properties in OECD countries is due to be completed by next August.


Two decades after the violent collapse of Yugoslavia, the former republics are finally accelerating the process of dividing diplomatic property....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbia-gains-ex-yu-assets-worth-26-million