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.One member of the commission said the decision late Thursday came because the two nations backed Kosovo's drive for independence from Serbia.The United States and most EU nations have backed independence for the southern Serbian province, which has been run by the United Nations since 1999, when a NATO air war forced Belgrade to end a crackdown against Kosovo Albanian separatists. Read more
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The United States and Europeans  discarded a U.N. resolution on the future status of Kosovo on  Friday because of Russian opposition, prompting Pristina to  propose independence from Serbia for November 28.
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Europe's top elections watchdog Thursday announced it would boycott Russia's presidential poll next month because of restrictions imposed by Moscow on its monitors.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The United Nations administration in Kosovo urged Serb leaders on Tuesday to stop intimidating Serbs who want to vote in the ethnic Albanian-dominated province's polls in November.
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MOSCOW, Feb 7 (Reuters ) - Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said on Thursday it had cancelled plans to monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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Russia and the US blocked the arrest of most-wanted Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, an ex-UN aide says.
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Western election observers on Tuesday  rejected concessions offered by Russia's presidential election  chief and demanded to be allowed to enter the country earlier  than the February 20 date suggested by Moscow.
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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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TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN -- Uzbeks voted in a parliamentary election yesterday in which opposition groups were barred from running, provoking criticism from Europe&#39;s top election watchdog and a fierce defence from authoritarian President Islam Karimov, who
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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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The United Nations has banned  a self-styled Serb &#39;volunteer guard&#39; from entering Kosovo,  trying to calm Albanian tempers as Serbs remember a medieval  battle at the heart of their claim to the province.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (17/12/04) - Bosnian Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic has been banned from entering the US, as Bosnian Serb officials come under pressure for failing to arrest Europeâs two most-wanted war criminals, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan
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The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two Bulgarian firms it accused of selling arms to two countries on its list of states supporting terrorism.
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Relations between the United States and Serbia are worsening because of U.S. support for the independence of Kosovo, Serbia's prime minister warned Monday.
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Some observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a Europe-wide security and rights forum, were barred from entering some polling stations in the United States, one of them said.
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Serbia's election commission has  turned down a request by the British and United States  embassies to allow some of their staff to monitor the  presidential election next weekend, officials said on Friday.
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Europe&#39;s top election watchdog criticized Uzbekistan&#39;s parliamentary election, in which opposition groups were barred from running, saying Monday it fell significantly short of democratic standards.