EU warns Serbia time running out on Mladic
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The European Commission has written to  Serbia, warning that time is running out for it to arrest war  crimes suspect Ratko Mladic if it wants to conclude an  agreement this year on closer ties, an EU official said on  Friday.
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A solution to Kosovo's final status  will be delayed until early spring, the European Union's  enlargement chief was quoted as saying on Thursday, a day after  Serbia set a crucial presidential election for January 20.
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Postponing the final round of Kosovo status talks by about a week would be acceptable to the EU, the bloc's foreign policy chief said Wednesday.Comment
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A U.S. diplomat said two top war crimes suspects _ Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic _ could be apprehended with a single phone call from Serbia's prime minister.Raffi Gregorian, deputy international administrator in Bosnia, told Bosnia's BHT1 television late Monday that the suspects were 'for sure' hiding in Serbia.'Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica can solve the issue of their arrest with just one phone call,' Gregorian said.Kostunica was traveling to New York for a Wednesday U.N. Security Council meeting on Kosovo and could not be reached for comment. He has repeatedly said that his government does not know where Karadzic and Mladic are hiding, and that authorities are doing everything in their power to find them. Read more
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - Protesting Serbs in Kosovo warned the European Union on Tuesday they would reject its planned supervisory mission if the Albanian majority declares independence from Serbia early next year.
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U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla  del Ponte said on Tuesday she was not satisfied with Serbia's  search for war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, whose arrest is  key to the country clinching closer ties to the European Union.
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The EU's enlargement commissioner rules out a deal with Serbia before  elections are completed.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic warns of more conflict if Kosovo declares independence as expected later this month.
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BRUSSELS/PRISTINA, Serbia  - Seeking to raise pressure on Russia, the European Union said on Thursday it could withdraw the issue of Kosovo's final status from the U.N. Security Council if Moscow does not accept a resolution soon.
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"We hope for a continuity. We would like to see the democratic forces of Serbia winning."  By William SchombergLJUBLJANA  - New European Union President Slovenia said on Tuesday it aimed to sign an accord with Serbia that is a first step towards EU membership soon, possibly by the end of this month.But EU enlargement chief Olli Rehn insisted that Belgrade must first meet a condition of full cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia."I am one of those who believe the SAA should be signed as soon as possible, possibly by the end of this month, but some of our colleagues have to be persuaded this is a good idea," Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel told reporters. Read more
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Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav  Kostunica greeted the resumption of suspended talks with the  European Union on Wednesday by urging the EU to back down on  its support for the independence of Kosovo.
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Belgrade's leader foresees outbreaks of violence if an independence declaration is rushed through
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Talks on the future of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo must not drag on indefinitely or get sidetracked in an arid dispute over labels such as "independence", senior European officials said on Tuesday.
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"We will get him because we are not forgetting him."  BRUSSELS  - Fugitive former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is in Serbia and should be arrested by the end of the year, chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Tuesday.She said Mladic, wanted on genocide charges over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Muslims, was probably moving around more than in the past because the recently appointed Serbian government is seriously trying to arrest him."Mladic is in Serbia because all the indications we have from the authorities, also in Serbia, are that he's there," she told a news conference at the European Policy Centre after talks with EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. Read more
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The European Union could change  the Balkans at a stroke by giving membership candidate status  to countries still uncertain whether the bloc really wants  them, Serb Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said on Monday.
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The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia appealed to the European Union on Wednesday not to resume talks on closer ties with Serbia until it hands over a key genocide suspect.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon said Friday he could not yet give his blessing to a planned 1,800-strong European Union mission for Kosovo because of the international dispute over the future of the breakaway Serbian province.The EU wants to send a policing and administrative mission to Kosovo to replace the current U.N. force, which took control alongside NATO peacekeepers in 1999 after war ended between Serbian troops and separatist ethnic Albanians.'I will have to closely and carefully assess the situation as it develops,' Ban told reporters after talks with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency. Read more