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...NATO is to blame - and should be on trial - for the deportation and killing of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in 1999. Milosevic wants to call powerful witnesses to support this line of reasoning, including ex-U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, but the judges must decide if their testimony is likely to be relevant. Milosevic faces a total of 66 counts on three indictments for genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, and for crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo, each carrying a possible life sentence. The trial could...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan head the list of world leaders Milosevic says he will call to testify in his attempt to show the world that he was really a peacemaker in the Balkans and not the war criminal he's being portrayed as. His second day of opening arguments was much the same as his first: literal finger-pointing as the accusations flew against what he called NATO's "savage, pointless" and Nazi-like attack on his country. the whole story...
Sachs, who also directs Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID), was appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as Special Adviser on the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals for a one-year term that began...
TIME's politically correct opinion that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan deserved the Nobel Peace Prize is shameful [NOBEL PRIZES, Oct. 22]. The U.N. was founded nearly 60 years ago with a key objective: to reduce war by resolving conflicts between nations peacefully. But the atrocities of war have continued just as before. After more than a half a century, it is high time to rethink an organization that has gone way beyond its trial period. RENE GARDEA Prague...
...Anecdotal reports from the region suggest Ross's rebuttal went over well with middle-class Arab audiences. It was helped, no doubt, by the fact that bin Laden had lashed out intemperately at moderate Arab regimes and at the United Nations. Calling Kofi Annan a "criminal," to take just one example, sounds deranged, even to anti-Western firebrands in the developing world. The terrorist, whose propaganda broadcast when the U.S. bombing began had been a home-run in the Arab world, now sounded almost incoherent, teeing himself up for Ross to calmly point out bin Laden's political isolation. Even...