U.N. says immune from legal action over Srebrenica
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The United Nations has received documents in a suit families of a 1995 massacre in Bosnia want to bring against it over its failure to prevent the bloodshed, but is immune from legal action, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday.
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The UN's top court on Monday cleared Serbia of direct involvement in genocide during the Bosnian war, but said Belgrade did breach international law by failing to prevent the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Slobodan Milosevic&#39;s defence lawyer has failed to line up witnesses after being appointed by the United Nations tribunal and will seek a suspension of the war crimes trial.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday it had proved legally impossible for his office to accept a U.N. membership application from Taiwan despite careful consideration of the matter.
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The chief war crimes prosecutor tells the UN that Serbia is refusing to arrest at least 12 wanted fugitives.
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is refusing to cooperate with two lawyers appointed to defend him before the U.N. war crimes tribunal - even as they prepare to call the first witness in his defense ...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic&#39;s defense case has reached a dead end because he will not allow lawyers to represent him at his war-crimes trial, his court-assigned counsel said yesterday.
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"Everything else is a sort of violation of international law."  By David Brunnstrom and Douglas HamiltonBRUSSELS/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.Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Russia's envoy in a troika supervising the Serb-Kosovo Albanian talks that started two weeks ago, accused the United States of bad faith for its declaration of support for Kosovo independence later this year. Read more
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Ex-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic began his defense against charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity before a United Nations court on Tuesday, denouncing the accusations as &quot;unscrupulous lies.
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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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BELGRADE, Jan 17  Serbia could lose World Bank and IMF assistance, miss its chance of European Union membership and slide back into isolation unless it hands over war crimes suspects to the Hague ...
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's highest legal body, dismissed cases filed by Serbia and Montenegro accusing NATO members of genocide during the alliance's 1999 air raids during the Kosovo conflict.
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Families of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia will sue the Dutch state and the United Nations, which they blame in part for allowing the killings to happen, lawyers said on Friday.
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BERLIN -- The United Nations' highest court ruled yesterday that Serbia failed to prevent the massacre of Muslims during the Bosnian war but was not directly responsible for the atrocities, ending a landmark case in which an entire nation was tried for committing genocide.
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THE HAGUE : The International Court of Justice, the UN's highest legal body, dismissed cases filed by Serbia and Montenegro accusing NATO members of genocide during the alliance's 1999 air raids during the ...
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The U.N. war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia accused the government of Serbia of blocking the handover of top fugitives and dismissed Belgrade's promise of cooperation saying she wants arrests not words.
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The government of Serbia remains "the single most important obstacle" to the prosecution of alleged war criminals from the former Yugoslavia, and has deliberately ignored its obligations to cooperate with the U.N. tribunal, the chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor said Tuesday.