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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.



Tadic Receives Summons Due to Inappropriate Behaviour

Belgrade | 17 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
 
Serbian President Boris Tadic (archive)
Serbian President Boris Tadic (archive)
Head of the Belgrade Misdemeanour Court, Zoran Pasalic, has announced that Serbian president and several state and football officials have been served a summons due to inappropriate behavior after the Serbia-Romania football game.

In an interview with Beta news agency, Pasalic said "they all got the call for December 1."

Serbian police filed a lawsuit against President Boris Tadic on October 16 for violating the Law on the Prevention of Violence and Inappropriate Behaviour at Sporting Events.

The lawsuit was also filed against Serbia's Football Association chief executive Tomislav Karadzic, Belgrade Assembly Speaker Aleksandar Antic and Youth and Sport Minister Snezana Markovic-Samardzic.

They are charged with toasting Serbia's football victory over Romania with champagne. Football stadiums are not licensed premises, so the toast was illegal.

Tadic said after the game that he would pay a fine if he had violated the law.

“In case I have violated the law by taking a glass [of champagne] which was offered to me, I should face legal consequences, which means to pay a fine like any other citizen. If I drove a car and accidentally exceeded the speed, I would have to pay a fine as well," Tadic said.

Chief Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic told broadcaster B92 earlier that the state prosecution would not respond to, or initiate any criminal proceedings against the president, since the law had not been violated.



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