Sunday, 14 August 2011
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Kosovo, Serbia reach border deal, local Serbs object
Kosovo and Serbia said on Friday they had reached a temporary deal to ease tensions in Kosovo's north and allow NATO to continue to guard two border posts following recent violence. However, ethnic Serbs in Kosovo's north refused to accept a key part of the deal and end a blockade of main roads imposed in a dispute that is essentially about who controls the area. "We will stay at the barricades because as mayors of northern Kosovo we are obliged to respect the opinion of the local people," said Mayor Dragisa Milovic from Zvecan, one of the region's larger towns. "We don't want to oppose the Serbian state but we want to respect your decisions," he told several hundred people maintaining the blockade in defiance of pleas from Serbia's chief negotiator with Kosovo who visited the road block. Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but the 60,000 Serbs living in northern Kosovo still consider Belgrade their capital. Violence flared last week after Kosovo, which broke away from Belgrade in 2008, attempted to seize border posts that had been staffed mostly by ethnic Serbs to enforce a new ban on imports from Serbia. Pristina acted apparently judging that Belgrade's strong desire to win European Union candidate member status in October would moderate its reaction. Yet local Serbs in northern Kosovo reacted angrily and vowed they would not be ruled from Pristina. Friday's agreement was an effort to ease tensions after a Kosovo policeman was shot dead last week and a border post set on fire. The deal left unresolved for future talks the thorny issue of who would control the north and how in the future. Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci called Friday's agreement the most important achievement since his tiny nation's declaration of independence three years ago.
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Thursday, 23 September 2010
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War crimes prosecutor urges EU to keep up pressure on Serbia to arrest Ratko Mladic
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Serbia still is not doing all it can to arrest key Bosnian war fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic and the European Union must keep the pressure on Belgrade to hunt him down, the chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said Monday.
In his toughest comments since taking office three years ago, prosecutor Serge Brammertz said failing to arrest Mladic would be a body blow not only to the tribunal and to victims of Serb atrocities in Bosnia's 1992-1995 war but to other courts trying to mete out international justice.
"The non-arrest of Mladic would be the worst signal you could give to all future tribunals," Brammertz told members of the Foreign Press Association in The Hague. "It would somehow give the signal to perpetrators that you can sit out international justice; that political interest is diminishing over time and that at the end of the day impunity prevails."
Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief, was indicted 15 years ago for atrocities including the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and the deadly hail of shells and snipers' bullets unleashed on the city of Sarajevo during a 44-month siege by Serb forces.
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Mlađan Dinkić Актуелни министар економије и потпредседник Владе. / The current Minister of Economy and Deputy Prime Minister.
Dragan Todorović Српски политичар, народни посланик - шеф посланичке групе Српске радикалне странке. / Serbian politician - vice-president of the Serbian Radical Party.
Božidar Đelić Cрпски политичар - актуелни потпредседник Владе Републике Србије за европске интеграције. / Serbian economist and politician - vice-president of the government.
Oliver Dulić Министар животне средине и просторног планирања. / The Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning.
Boris Tadić Cрпски политичар - садашњи председник Републике Србије. / Serbian politician - the current President of Serbia.
Milorad Dodik Предсједник Владе Републике Српске и предсједник СНСД. / Bosanskohercegovački političar. / The Prime Minister of Republika Srpska and the president of the party SNSD.
Slavica Đukić Dejanović Aктуелни председник Народне скупштине Републике Србије. / The President of the National Assembly of Serbia.
Ivica Dačić Председник Социјалистичке партије Србије и министар унутрашњих послова. / The current Minister of Internal Affairs.
Velimir Ilić Тренутни председник "Нова Србија". / The current chairman of "New Serbia".
Nenad Čanak Председник Лиге социјалдемократа Војводине. The president of the League of Vojvodina Social Democrats.
Vojislav Šešelj Председник Српске радикалне странке. / The founder and president of the Serbian Radical Party.
Tomislav Nikolić Председник Српске напредне странке. / President of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Vojislav Koštunica Cрпски политичар и државник, доктор правних наука, теоретичар права. / Serbian politician and statesman - the President of the Democratic Party of Serbia.
Mirko Cvetković Српски економиста - председник Владе Републике Србије. / Serbian economist - current Prime Minister ("President of the Government") of Serbia.
Čedomir Jovanović Predsednik Liberalno-demokratske partije. / The president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Friday, 22 January 2010
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Albania opposition protests to demand vote recount
TIRANA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Albanian opposition Socialist Party supporters launched their latest protest Friday to demand the government either recount the vote in a controversial June 28 election or hold another.
Socialist Party leader Edi Rama accused Prime Minister Sali Berisha of the Democratic Party of rigging the parliamentary elections to "steal Albania's wealth."
The Socialists lost to Berisha in the tightest race since Albania abandoned communism, but have not accepted the result and refuse to enter parliament unless a number of ballot boxes, ruled "irregular" by election authorities, are opened.
They say the votes inside would give them victory overall. Berisha's Democrats have just 70 seats in the 140-seat parliament, and the Socialists 66. The Democrats rule with support from the four Socialist Integration Movement seats.
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Regilion
Miguel Obando y Bravo A Nicaraguan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. ElectionsMeter is intended for the world´s public to express personal affections and free opinion of every person towards politics and politicians.
Pope Benedict XVI The 265th and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the spiritual head of the Roman Catholic Church. ElectionsMeter is intended for the world´s public to express personal affections and free opinion of every person towards politics and politicians.
Dalai Lama The spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people according to Tibetan Buddhism. ElectionsMeter is intended for the world´s public to express personal affections and free opinion of every person towards politics and politicians.
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Thursday, 20 August 2009
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Serbian Radicals
It could be a polling station anywhere in Europe's urban landscape, Birmingham, Berlin, or Brussels. A low concrete primary school, a faded Sonic the hedgehog spray-painted on one wall. The acting party leader, accompanied by his elegant wife, his son and daughter-in-law, walks through the rather scrubby, muddy grass that lies in front of the ranks of high-rise flats.
The snappers snap and the cameras whirr as he places his vote in the perspex ballot box. But this is Belgrade, and the politician is the acting leader of Serbia's Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolic.
Ana, a pretty 10-year-old in a red top, rushes forward excitedly to get his autograph. Afterwards she shows me his signature, and tells me that her grandmother has a photograph of him and she loves him. I doubt she knows that American diplomats and the European Union regard him and his party with distaste, as a symbol of Serbia's difficult and dangerous past.
After voting, Mr Nikolic told me the West had no reason to worry about his party, but stressed that Kosovo couldn't become independent. We'll see soon enough: the UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari will announce his plans on its future in the capital, Pristina, on 2 February.
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