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05 February 2010 |

Simon Cottrell It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Feith: 'New Beginning' for Mitrovica
05 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has said the appointment of a team to create a new Serb-majority municipality in the divided city of Mitrovica could herald a 'new beginning'.

Georgieva, Ciolos Approved with New Commission
09 February 2010 |

The European Parliament has approved the new European Commission at its session in Strasbourg. Kristalina Georgieva and Dacian Ciolos are the new commissioners from Bulgaria and Romania, respectively.

Koricanske stijene: Awareness of Security
09 February 2010 |

A member of the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he spoke to Milorad Skrbic while investigating the murder at Koricanske stijene and "determined that he did not have any operational data about this event".



Karadzic's Lawyer to file ‘Last-minute Appeal’

| 25 July 2008 |
 
Police outside the building where Karadzic is being held
Police outside the building where Karadzic is being held
Belgrade _ The lawyer of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said he would appeal the extradition ruling minutes before the deadline later on Friday.

Attorney Svetozar Vujacic said he would mail the appeal at 1955 CEST (1755 GMT) in a post office outside Belgrade, minutes before closing time, in apparent attempt to buy some more time for Karadzic's family to visit former leader in Belgrade prison.

However the international administrator for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Lajcak has ignored the request of Karadzic's family to return their documents ahead of his extradition, saying that this case does not present any kind of humanitarian crisis.

"The Karadzic family will have many opportunities to visit their father but many of Srebrenica people will never have that chance," Lajcak told Sarajevo media, referring to the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim boys and man in that town in eastern Bosnia.

"Documents were confiscated on my order under the suspicion that the family was involved in the support network for war crimes suspects still at large. I do not see why this case turned into a humanitarian issue," Lajcak said.

Meanwhile Serbian hardliners are preparing for the fourth straight day of protest against the arrest in Belgrade as the Radical Party and several minor nationalist groups have stormed the streets of capital, shouting pro-Karadzic slogans. Reporters have also been attacked during the rallies. Read more: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12064/

Peaceful protests throughout Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska will start on Saturday, Karadzic's former party said.

Karadzic could be extradited to The Hague as soon as the panel of judges decides on the appeal. Earlier, Belgrade officials announced that could happen over the weekend or early next week.



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