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Rarely has politics made stranger bedfellows than the allies who came together in Serbia last week. Vojislav Kostunica - leader of Serbia's largest centrist party and the man who defeated Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 to become the last President of Yugoslavia - struck a deal with Milosevic's own Socialist Party (SPS) to secure the position of Serbian Prime Minister. Milosevic himself, on trial in the Hague for war crimes, will have no influence on government policy, but what many regard as an unholy alliance is prompting fears that Serbia is lapsing into its bad old nationalistic habits. Kostunica's Democratic...
...State Department—that a special tribunal composed solely of Iraqi jurists would try members of the former government and those complicit in its crimes. Thoroughly Iraqi, the tribunal departs from the three recent UN-sponsored war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the former Yugoslavia...
...widespread that vendors will refuse to accept them. Seven years ago, the U.S. Treasury was compelled to release redesigned $100 bills after an uncontrollable rise in the number of bad notes in circulation. Already, Greek kiosk owners in Thessaloniki, not far from the borders of Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia, are buying up large quantities of special scanners and pens with UV lights to spot fakes. What progress has been made is the result of tighter coordination between police inside and outside the euro zone. Until recently, police in Western Europe rarely shared actionable intelligence with their Eastern counterparts...
...been given multiple examples of effective U.N. intervention. In the Gulf War of 1991, Kuwaiti liberation succeeded because of a massive U.N.-led multilateral effort, and few can argue with the result. A U.N.-backed, NATO-led effort to save Kosovo from the territorial machinations of Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslavia was equally successful. It is U.N. bodies like the International Criminal Tribunal that are striving to bring justice to Yugoslavia and Rwanda...
...steered his country to independence?provoking a 43-month war, which left 250,000 people dead or missing?but couldn't stop the later fragmentation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; in Sarajevo. Izetbegovic was a devout Muslim who backed Bosnian statehood after Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. A spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes said an investigation into possible war crimes by Izetbegovic ended with his death...