SERBIA & MONTENEGRO:  Plea For Refugees' Right To Choose
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BELGRADE, Oct 25 (IPS) - For more than a decade, the problem of refugees  in  Serbia was only expressed in numbers, exploited by politicians or   simply put aside.
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TORONTO -- A US soldier who deserted because he opposed the war in Iraq appealed for asylum in Canada yesterday but faces an uphill battle to persuade a refugee tribunal that he has the right to stay.
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"Anyone who wants Serbia as a partner has to know Serbia will accept partnership only as a whole country, not as a country cut in two"  Serb Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica warned the European Union on Tuesday that sending a supervisory mission to the breakaway province of Kosovo could damage relations with Serbia. via The Washington Post
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BRDO PRI KRANJU, Slovenia  - Italy urged its European Union partners on Monday to reach out to Serbia in a bid to resolve diplomatic deadlock over its breakaway province of Kosovo.
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Serbia promised not to resort to violence Monday but ordered ambassadors to return home as it argued against an independent Kosovo. The European nation also implored the U.N. Security Council to intervene.
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The Skupstina (Parliament) of the Republic of Serbia passed the Law on Freedom of Access to Information.
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BELGRADE, Oct 15  (IPS) - Serbia and Montenegro are back in consideration for  EU membership but growing  local resistance to foreign capital  could be in the way.
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Montenegro -- A European Parliament committee investigating interethnic incidents in Vojvodina is in Belgrade on Monday (31 January), meeting with Serbian government officials.
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1 November 2004 - Slobodan MiloÅ¡evic can go back to representing himself in his ongoing genocide trial but must let his court-appointed lawyers assist him if his health threatens to interfere with the case, a United Nations tribunal ruled today.
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Serb PM Vojislav Kostunica proposes a new constitution affirming Kosovo as a permanent part of Serbia.
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The European Union is to adopt a new "twin track" approach to its dealings with the two officially united Balkan republics of Serbia and Montenegro, in an attempt to speed up their preparations for EU ...
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THE HAGUE, Sep 29  (IPS) - The EU should establish a system for "orderly  intake and integration of migrants,"  experts recommended at  a conference on European development policy.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic has appealed for peace and equal rights for all citizens of Kosovo, on the second day of a landmark tour of Serb enclaves in the United Nations-run province.
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Kosova PM, Bajram Rexhepi asked today from the OSCE CiO, Solomon Passy that the elections process out of Kosova, namely in Serbia and Montenegro be well monitored, in order to avoid any abuses at the polling ...
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Europeans and the United States  are drafting a U.N. resolution that would order 120 days of  negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo&#39;s ethnic Albanians but  no longer automatically call for independence.
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Controversy over asylum for high-profile Chechen refugees has sparked renewed European calls for extra-territorial refugee camps to vet asylum seekers, but human rights groups argue such camps are complicated ...
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BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (IPS) - Sharp differences have emerged over proposals to  provide temporary shelter in Europe to children orphaned in the  tsunami disaster.