Serbia bars US, British vote monitors
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Serbia's electoral commission has barred observers from the United States and Britain from monitoring its presidential election this month.
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Serbia's parliament was set to adopt a resolution on Wednesday implicitly rejecting membership of the European Union and NATO if the West recognizes the independence of Kosovo.
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Serbia disregarded European Union  calls for less provocative Serb rhetoric on Kosovo at the  weekend and warned that the United States was leading the West  down a path of force to make the province independent.
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Russia said on Friday the Council of  Europe would send observers to monitor a March presidential  election that Europe's main vote watchdog has already declined  to attend, accusing Moscow of unreasonable restrictions.
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Serbia's reformist President Boris Tadic called on ethnic Serbs to vote in the elections in the UN-administered southern province of Kosovo later this month despite appeals for a boycott by the government in ...
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MOSCOW, Jan. 29 -- Europe's principal elections watchdog group said Tuesday it may refuse to monitor a second Russian election in a row because the authorities here have imposed "serious restrictions" on the organization's ability to scrutinize the March 2 presidential elections.
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The United States has criticized  demands by Serbian caretaker prime minister Vojislav Kostunica  for a hardline response from major parties if the West grants  independence to Kosovo in a plan due to be disclosed on Friday.
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Uzbekistan on Monday blocked a U.N. resolution backed by the United States and Western nations criticizing its human rights violations, including the harassment, beatings and arrests of journalists and civil activists.
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"Using the policy of force, the U.S. threatens openly that it will not respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia, which is an internationally recognized state and a U.N. member"  Serbia disregarded European Union calls for less provocative Serb rhetoric on Kosovo at the weekend and warned that the United States was leading the West down a path of force to make the province independent. via Reuters
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The United States has announced sanctions on two Bulgarian companies for alleged arms sales to twocountries which it considers sponsors of terrorism, a Bulgarian newspaper reported Saturday.
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The United States and Europeans have decided not to call a U.N. Security Council vote on Kosovo's future status and instead will initiate talks between Belgrade and Pristina, Britain and the United States said on Friday.
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Serbia's police on Wednesday banned a neo-Nazi march planned for next month, while Czech Jewish leaders voiced opposition to a rally by right-wing extremists in their country.
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An international election monitoring organization said Thursday it will not observe Russia's presidential election next month because of the "severe restrictions" imposed by the Kremlin.
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The Belarus Democracy Act passed by the U.S. Congress earlier this week imposes sanctions on the post-Soviet republic and bars senior Belarusian leaders from entering the United States.
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The United States is cutting aid to Serbia and Montenegro and may take further punitive measures if Belgrade persists in defying the United Nations war crimes tribunal, the U.S. ambassador to Serbia warned on Friday.
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BRUSSELS/BELGRADE  - Serbia warned the EU on Wednesday it would not accept any decision on Kosovo taken outside the United Nations, and its ally Russia told the United States to stop backing Kosovo independence while talks continue.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The United Nations has banned a self-styled Serb 'volunteer guard' from entering Kosovo, trying to calm Albanian tempers as Serbs remember a medieval battle at the heart of their claim to the province.