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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'.

Serbia Has 'Illusions' on EU Accession Date
09 February 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Even though recent polls suggest that almost half the Serbian population believe their country will join the EU in less than five years, a WAZ.EUobserver article claims that Serbia has unrealistic expectations about the speed of its EU integration.

Bozic et al: First Instance Verdict Confirmed
08 February 2010 |

The Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms the first instance verdict, sentencing Mladen Blagojevic to seven years in prison and acquitting Zdravko Bozic, Zoran Zivanovic and Zeljko Zaric of the charges that they committed war crimes in the Srebrenica area.



Serbia Closer To Mladic, Hadzic - Prosecutor

Belgrade | 20 February 2009 |
 
Vladimir Vukcevic
Vladimir Vukcevic
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says Belgrade authorities are closing in on Hague war crime fugitives Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic each day, while especially Mladic’s arrest could come this year.

In an interview with Serbian daily Danas, Vukcevic said authorities were checking every bit of information that came in about Mladic, and had managed to reconstruct his movements. Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, indicted on two counts of genocide for the 1992-95 war, and Croatian Serb wartime leader Goran Hadzic are still at large.

Vukcevic said Belgrade now showed the political will needed to arrest the two fugitives, adding that the report from Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz was “objective,” .

“I’m sorry there is no more mention of Mladic and Hadzic in the report except in terms of ‘incomplete cooperation’,” Vukcevic said. “That is a new term introduced two years ago. Previously, incomplete cooperation was due to a lack of political will, but now the political will is there and everyone is doing all they can to finish our cooperation.”.

The extradition of all war crimes indictees to the Hague court is one of the key conditions for Serbia to advance towards joining the European Union. The Netherlands, the country that hosts the tribunal, is blocking further steps by the Balkan state towards  membership in the bloc unless all fugitives have been extradited.

He said that Serbia had “new evidence and astounding information”  on the organ harvesting case, and was liaising with the Council of Europe on it. Serbia has said it has information showing that dozens of Serbs were kidnapped during the Kosovo conflict, taken to Albania and killed for their organs. Albania and Kosovo have denied any knowledge of the case.

(Reporting by Ljilja Cvekic)



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Comments:
Hurry up
2009-02-20 14:04:17
'Mladic’s arrest could come this year' -still 10 1/2 months to go, then! Doesn't exactly suggest a huge sense of urgency.

mladic
2009-02-20 19:05:26
Vukcevic should be busy liberating Kosovo not hunting his own military for his american masters.

Arrest is necessary talk is cheap
2009-02-21 00:18:03
After fifteen years it is very disheartening to hear him say that "now" Serbia had the political will to capture the most sought after criminal in all of Europe "by the end of this year" (which would make it 16 years that Mladic got to enjoy in freedom and comfort while the bodies of the civilians he killed are rotting in mass graves scattered all over Eastern Bosnia). The Serbian government's pace of capturing Mladic is unacceptable and more pressure needs to be placed on Serbia to fulfill its international obligations.

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