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...American was seeking. Djindjic kept his word, despite a decision by a court, packed with Milosevic supporters, to overturn the order that would send him into exile. Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic's successor as President of Yugoslavia, considered the handover "both illegal and unconstitutional," and the Prime Minister of the Yugoslav Federation, a comparatively powerless figure, resigned. But a majority of the ruling coalition supported sending Milosevic to the Hague, and Kostunica backed away from a threat to break up the government. Milosevic will face charges in an international court for crimes committed while in office--only nine months after...
...Brussels last Friday, as Milosevic went through medical checks in the Hague, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus was blunt. "We did it," he told the donors' conference. "Now it's your turn." The assembled governments responded with pledges of almost $1.3 billion in aid. Whether such a price was worth the incarceration of Milosevic is a question that only the shades of his victims are entitled to answer...
...they have decidedly mixed feelings towards the International Criminal Tribunal and most would condemn NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. President Vojislav Kostunica, for example, makes no secret of the fact that he believes the tribunal is biased against Serbs, and had insisted that Milosevic be first processed by the Yugoslav judiciary before being extradited. It is these sentiments that the former strongman was trying to tap when he appeared in court Tuesday, suggesting that the trial may yet become a rallying point for nationalist Serbs and cause political problems at home for the post-Milosevic leadership...
...YUGOSLAVIA A Legal Landmark The Yugoslav Cabinet approved a decree that paves the way for the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal. Western nations have pressured Belgrade to cooperate with the court as a condition of receiving much-needed aid. Several Montenegrin ministers voiced opposition to the measure, boycotted the vote and offered to resign from the coalition government...
...Yugoslav federal government had been uneasy about sending Milosevic for trial in a court considered by President Vojislav Kostunica to be biased against Serbs. Authorities appeared set to delay the process by allowing a Federal appeals court - whose judges had been Milosevic appointees, and had voted to annul last year's election result precipitating the insurrection that drove him from office - to challenge the validity of last weekend's government decree facilitating the strongman's extradition. But when the Federal court said no, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic - Kostunica's arch-rival and an enthusiastic advocate of a Hague trial...