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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".



Serb Intelligence ‘Negotiating Mladic Surrender’

| 13 August 2008 |
 
Ratko Mladic (left) and Radovan Karadzic (right)
Ratko Mladic (left) and Radovan Karadzic (right)
Belgrade _ Serbia’s Army Security Agency has been negotiating the voluntary surrender of the top war-crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, a newspaper reported.

The source quoted in the Banja Luka-based newspaper, Glas Srpske, gave gave no more details but added that "the stakes in either case – a reward if Mladic surrenders or sanctions if he refuses – are too huge".

Earlier, Serbian government ministers called on Mladic to voluntarily surrender in his own interest and that of Serbia. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12265

The newspaper source apparently referred to the arrest and extradition of the two remaining war crimes fugitives, Mladic and a Croatian Serb leader, Goran Hadzic, as key conditions for Serbia’s further integration into the EU.

"The authorities insist that Mladic goes to The Hague without problems," the source was quoted as saying, adding that "Serbia is determined to end The Hague saga".

The report follows the apprehension in July of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, twice indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, ICTY.

In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel, carried by the Belgrade daily Blic on Tuesday, Rasim Ljajic, head of the National Council for Cooperation withThe Hague Tribunal and a Serbian minister, said Mladic hid in military barracks and flats in Belgrade until the end of 2005. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12331

Wednesday’s report comes days after sources told Blic that Mladic’s arrest could be expected within weeks. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12282

Prior to Karadzic’s arrest, Serbia in June apprehended and extradited another Bosnian Serb war time leader, Stojan Zupljanin.



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