Word: del
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...YESICA DEL CARMEN BERRIOS, coffee picker, reacting to the killer earthquake that struck El Salvador...
...first meeting between international war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and Yugoslavia's new president Vojislav Kostunica appears to have ended badly Tuesday. Was this any surprise...
...surprise that their meeting didn't go well. Neither side really expected that it would. Carla Del Ponte didn't expect that that she would be able to fly back to The Hague with Slobodan Milosevic's head on a plate, and Kostunica didn't expect that he and Del Ponte would become good friends. But the most important thing here is that a dialogue has been established...
...thing, he has previously questioned the legitimacy of the court, on the grounds that it was created by the U.N. Security Council rather than by the full membership in the General Assembly. But he has presumably dropped this objection by accepting a meeting with Del Ponte, which implies that he has now irrevocably recognized the court...
...provide too much ammunition to his domestic political enemies. He's facing pressure from the West to hand Milosevic over, but on the other hand there's a lot of resistance, not only from the opposition, but even from members of his own coalition. That's why meeting with Del Ponte required a certain degree of courage from Kostunica, because there are a lot of people in the opposition and among government supporters who'd prefer to see these things buried. So the visit marked the beginning of the real debate in Serbia about war crimes...