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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.


Feith: ICJ Opinion May Ease Tensions
09 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Pieter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, said that the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence could help alleviate tense relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Returned Asylum Seekers Arrive in Region
12 March 2010 |

A bus carrying Macedonian and Serbian nationals who unsuccessfully sought asylum in Belgium arrived in the two Balkan countries on Thursday after departing Brussels the previous day.


Hodzic et al: Custody Debate
12 March 2010 |

The State Prosecution asks the Court to extend custody of three former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are charged with crimes committed in Trusina village, Konjic municipality, in April 1993.



Serbia, IMF Reach Deal for Tranche 2, 3

Belgrade | 04 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
 
IMF talks (FoNet archive)
IMF talks (FoNet archive)
Serbian Finance Minister Diana Dragutinovic announced that talks with the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for the country's second and third tranches of the IMF loan agreed to earlier this year, have been completed successfully.

Speaking at a press conference, Dragutinovic said that an agreement has been reached to extend the freezing of wages and pensions into 2010. She said these measures are expected to bring the largest amount of savings.

According to broadcaster RTS, the head of the IMF's mission for Serbia, Albert Jaeger, believes that the Serbian government has achieved a balanced agreement. The challenge of the Serbian authorities is to apply the agreement, as he said.

Jaeger also pointed out that the agreement needs to be approved by the Executive Board of IMF, whose meeting is scheduled for the end of December.

Official negotiations between the IMF delegation and Serbian government on the second and third tranches of the IMF loan agreement, worth roughly USD 2.9 billion (€1,9 billion), started on October 26.

Last Friday, the two delegations reached an agreement on Serbia's state budget for next year. It was agreed that there will be no increase in VAT and that the projected budget deficit will be 4 per cent of GDP, half a per centage point lower than for this year.

Dragutinovic also said that the beginning of pension reforms was agreed to start next year and that its effects will not be felt until 2020, the Tanjug news agency reports.



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