Word: yugoslavias
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...indictment for war crimes of a former head of state - with predictable defiance. He snarled at the judge and challenged the right of the U.N.-mandated court to try him, insisting that the proceedings were simply a propaganda exercise to rationalize what he termed "war crimes" by NATO against Yugoslavia. Of course, such blather was never going to shake the conviction of the international community that had established the court precisely so that the men and women responsible for the Balkan bloodletting of the 1990s would be personally held to account. Back home in Yugoslavia, though, Milosevic's antics...
...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...
There is more than a little irony in the fact that Macedonia came apart at the seams in the same week that Yugoslavia moved to send Slobodan Milosevic for trial in the Hague. Milosevic may be history, but Macedonia now appears irrevocably bound to repeat the horrors of the Balkan wars of the last decade. Milosevic, of course, has had no hand in the Macedonian tragedy. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said for NATO...
...Dejan Anastasijevic: Yes, this is more or less a formality and he's likely to be sent to the Hague in a couple of weeks, after the deadline has expired for his appeals. The government's decree defines the procedure by which the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia's request will be processed through the local judiciary, and after his appeals are reviewed, Milosevic will very likely be sent over. It may take a little bit longer because Milosevic's lawyers are challenging the legality and constitutionality of the decree, but there is no serious opposition to the decision...
...Tribunal was very low on his priority list, and also that in principle he was against turning anybody over for trial in the Hague. But he has since softened his stance, and is now quite clearly in favor of cooperation with the Tribunal - one of his reasons being that Yugoslavia desperately needs foreign aid and investment, and most importantly, rescheduling of its debt. And the U.S. government had made clear that it would vote against aid to Belgrade in the IMF and World Bank, and would block rescheduling of the debt, if the Yugoslav government refused to cooperate...