Serbia Said Key Obstacle on War Criminals
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The U.N. war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia accused the government of Serbia of blocking the handover of top fugitives and dismissed Belgrade's promise of cooperation saying she wants arrests not words.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic, facing growing international isolation, is under increasing pressure to hand war-crime suspects over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
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"We will get him because we are not forgetting him."  BRUSSELS  - Fugitive former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is in Serbia and should be arrested by the end of the year, chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Tuesday.She said Mladic, wanted on genocide charges over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Muslims, was probably moving around more than in the past because the recently appointed Serbian government is seriously trying to arrest him."Mladic is in Serbia because all the indications we have from the authorities, also in Serbia, are that he's there," she told a news conference at the European Policy Centre after talks with EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. Read more
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The governments of Serbia and the Bosnian Serb enclave of Bosnia-Herzegovina have failed to bring war crimes suspects to the United Nations tribunal, Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told the Security Council.
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The UN's top court on Monday cleared Serbia of direct involvement in genocide during the Bosnian war, but said Belgrade did breach international law by failing to prevent the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.
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Serbia has the political will to  arrest top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, but some state  officials are still stalling, United Nations chief war crimes  prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 7 (IPS) - The European Union has decided to deepen its  political and economic ties with Serbia, despite suggestions that  the Belgrade authorities could be protecting one of the most  wanted men in the former Yugoslavia.
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Serbia warned on Thursday it would  defend Serb rights in Bosnia against Western-inspired threats  with as much determination as it is applying to prevent the  Western-inspired secession of its own Kosovo province.
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Still reluctant to catch and extradite suspects wanted by a U.N. war crimes court, Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica urged the men to surrender voluntarily to the international tribunal in comments published Sunday.
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The chief war crimes prosecutor tells the UN that Serbia is refusing to arrest at least 12 wanted fugitives.
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âThe ICTY Chief Prosecutor yesterday raised serious concerns about the level of co-operation with the Tribunal on the part of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro.
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Serbia has intensified its search for Gen. Ratko Mladic and three other war crimes fugitives before a fact-finding visit this week by a chief U.N. prosecutor who has questioned Serbia's commitment to finding the suspects, officials said Wednesday.
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U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla  del Ponte said on Tuesday she was not satisfied with Serbia's  search for war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, whose arrest is  key to the country clinching closer ties to the European Union.
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A convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal who escaped from prison last week could have fled to neighbouring Montenegro, the president of Bosnia&#39;s top court said Tuesday.
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The European Commission has written to  Serbia, warning that time is running out for it to arrest war  crimes suspect Ratko Mladic if it wants to conclude an  agreement this year on closer ties, an EU official said on  Friday.
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Serbia told the United States at the weekend that its "open threats" to force the independence of Kosovo would wreck talks aimed at finding an agreed future for the breakaway province.
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Serbia aims to arrest and transfer fugitive Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal by the end of the year, President Boris Tadic vowed on Friday.