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Pocar: Bosnia Prison Appeal

May 22, 2008

Tribunal president concerned that country’s main court does not have an adequate prison facility. By Merdijana Sadovic in Sarajevo (TU No 552, 23-May-08) Hague tribunal president Fausto Pocar urged the international community to support Bosnia’s prison system. The tribunal president made the...

EU representative says there are no obstacles to Bosnian pre-membership agreement with EU

There are no obstacles to Bosnia signing a pre-membership agreeement with the European Union, an EU representative said. Slovenia's U.N. Ambassador Sanja Stiglic, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that Bosnia's recent adoption of two...

President of the U.N. war tribunal says Bosnia needs help in improving security in jails

The President of the U.N. war crimes tribunal said Monday he will visit a prison in eastern Bosnia from which a convicted war criminal escaped a year ago to see how security can be improved. The official, Judge Fausto Pocar, arrived in Bosnia for a three-day visit to discuss cooperation between...

Ex-Prosecutor Calls for Tribunal Reform

May 19, 2008

Sir Geoffrey Nice tells IWPR seminar that ICTY should review procedures dealing with confidentiality. By Simon Jennings in The Hague (TU No 551, 20-May-08) A former prosecutor in the trial of the late Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, has questioned the policy of the International Tribunal...

Serbia: SPS Holds Key to ICTY Cooperation

Some fear the worst if the Socialist Party joins nationalist parties in a coalition government. By Aleksandar Roknic in Belgrade (TU No 551, 19-May-08) The party once led by Slobodan Milosevic looks like it will have a hand in running Serbia for the first time since the former president was...

Outrage at Serb plan for church on Sarajevo heights

Posted: Saturday, May 17, 2008, 6:23 (BST) A plan by Bosnian Serb war veterans to build a church on the heights above Sarajevo in memory of comrades killed in the 1992-95 war seems set to deepen divisions between Bosnia's two autonomous regions. The association of Serb war prisoners originally...

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Alexandros Lykourezos

Alexandros Lykourezos is a Srebrenica genocide denier and one of the most fervent supporters of the late Slobodan Milosevic and the indicted war criminal Gen Ratko Mladic. Througout the war in Bosnia, Mr Lycourezos publicly supported Gen Ratko Mladic and the politics of Slobodan Milosevic....

Balkan end-game?

The pro-Europeans did well, but it will still be hard to form a new governmentTHE partying went on late after Serbia's election on May 11th. Bucking the opinion polls, pro-European parties did better than expected, and the nationalists did worse. But the next morning brought the inevitable...

EU-Serbia Agreement Sparks Controversy

EU-Serbia Agreement Sparks ControversyTuesday , 13 May 2008Serbia left deeply divided by the agreement with the European Union, while international observers say the deal should not have been offered before the election. By Simon Jennings in The Hague (TU .....

Liberating Ramush Haradinaj: What consequences for Europe?

On 3 April 2008 the International Court for the former Yugoslavia acquitted Ramush Haradinaj, former Prime Minister of Kosovo and general of the Liberation Army of Kosovo (KLA). Acquitted along with Haradinaj was Idriz Balaj, commander of a special unit of the KLA that stands accused of having...