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...Brussels has already told Belgrade that the talks will be suspended, probably for a very long period, unless the general is apprehended within the next two or three weeks. Also, the failure to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal is likely to complicate negotiations over the future status of Kosovo, which opened last week in Vienna. Serbia desperately wants to keep some sovereignty over the independence-minded province, which was placed under UN and NATO control after a brief bloody war in 1999. "Entering the talks as a country which harbors war criminals is seriously damaging our position," Serbia and Montenegro...
...global security by reducing the threat of world war [Jan. 23]. In quoting Mandelbaum's theories, Elliott evokes the prominent role of the U.S. during the past few decades in the peacemaking processes around the world. Elliott deplores the loneliness of the U.S. in its quest for a steadier Kosovo or Bosnia, denouncing the lack of Europe's commitment. Elliott may have forgotten that in both places, Kosovo and Bosnia, American and European soldiers fought side by side and that air strikes were also delivered by European aircraft. Romain Champenois Versailles, France...
...global security by reducing the threat of world war [Jan. 23]. In quoting Mandelbaum's theories, Elliott evokes the prominent role of the U.S. during the past few decades in the peacemaking processes around the world. Elliott deplores the loneliness of the U.S. in its quest for a steadier Kosovo or Bosnia, denouncing the lack of Europe's commitment. Elliott may have forgotten that in both places, Kosovo and Bosnia, American and European soldiers fought side by side and that air strikes were also delivered by European aircraft. Romain Champenois Versailles, France The commentary by Elliott was a thinly disguised...
DIED. IBRAHIM RUGOVA, 61, President of U.N.-administered Kosovo and a leader of the decades-long quest by the province's ethnic Albanian majority for independence from Serbia; of lung cancer; in Pristina...
...send 200 observers, and the Carter Center and National Democratic Institute will send 100 observers. The latter delegation will be led personally by former President Jimmy Carter. The IFES mission will not end on election day. Blanc, who has worked on policy and electoral issues in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo, said that his group is committed to working with the Palestinian Authority well into the future. “First, we’ll be here for the counting and tabulation of the ballots which is often one of the flashpoints in a transitioning democracy,” Blanc said...