Ryzhkov: NATO, Not Milosevic Guilty in Kosovo
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NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 was an act of aggression rather than an attempt to save ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov told Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial Monday.
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Kosovo looked forward on  Monday to recognition by the Western powers who went to war to  save its Albanian majority, but Russia served notice the new  state will never be forced on its Serb allies in the territory.
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BELGRADE, Nov 24  Most Serbs oppose handing three generals over to The Hague to face Kosovo war crimes charges, even if the country continues to pay a price internationally for its defiance of the ...
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The head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Joachim Ruecker, says Serbs should not be afraid to live in the new Kosovo.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his long-delayed defense at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, describing the battles of his Serbian people as self defense against internal rebellions and external attacks by Islamic warriors.    Milosevic, charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in the Balkans, portrayed the Serbs as victims rather than aggressors: victims of a plan supported by the United States and Europe to break up Yugoslavia, of an attempt to wipe out Croatia's Serb minority, and of a Saudi-financed plot to create an Islamic state in Bosnia...
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NATO offered Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro on Tuesday a first step toward membership despite unresolved war crimes concerns, in a policy switch cheered by the region but condemned by the top U.N. prosecutor.
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Joining NATO should not be Ukraine's top military goal, given the state of the country's cash-strapped armed forces, the new defense minister said Saturday.
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NATO criticized Balkan countries on Thursday for not helping to bring indicted war criminals to justice and called on them to live up to their international obligations.
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Russia s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called upon the UN mission and the Kosovo Force, as well as the provisional self-government bodies of the autonomous province within Serbia to prevent extremism in ...
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Serbia has promised NATO it  would not use force against Kosovo if the breakaway province  carried out a vow to declare independence early next year, a  senior alliance commander said on Thursday.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s move earlier this week to enhance his own power in response to a wave of terrorism does not take on the real problem: the corrupt and unreformed security
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Russia opposes a NATO-backed proposal to  set Serbia's province of Kosovo on the road to independence but  may accept a trade-off on its future in return for other  concessions, diplomats and analysts believe.
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(Corrects name of IFPI representative to Pozhitkov from  Pozhitkin, makes clear Russian trial was initiated by Russian  state and was not civil case, paragraphs 12-14)
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&quot;Russia is not the only country that has announced the possibility of using or carrying out preventive strikes. I would like to stress that we did not invent it,&quot; he added, hinting that Moscow was following a US lead.
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Â· Europe tour may anger Kremlin before G8 summitÂ· Moscow comments are unhelpful, says Nato
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Serbia vows to prevent secession; Russia may veto U.N. motion BELGRADE: Serbia's Albanian majority province of Kosovo has been put on the path to independent statehood by an international blueprint that redraws ...Comment
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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 ...