Don't hold talks with Serbia until Mladic is arrested: Del Ponte urges EU
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Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the UN war crimes court, has urged the European Union not to resume talks on closer ties with Serbia until former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic is arrested.
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The European Union welcomed a Serbian &amp;quot;action plan&amp;quot; to achieve full cooperation with UN prosecutors seeking to try war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic and urged Belgrade to put it into practice.
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Talks about a U.N. plan for Kosovo were postponed for one week, after Serbia requested more time to allow for a parliament to be formed in Belgrade
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Serbia's nationalist prime minister yesterday blocked the signing of a landmark pact between Belgrade and the EU in an attempt to delay the secession of Kosovo
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Serbia's most prominent human rights activist said Tuesday that the Serbian intelligence agency knows the whereabouts of Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive, Gen. Ratko Mladic, and is considering whether to arrest him.
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The European Union will this week  spell out to Serbia the exact steps needed for the country to  clinch closer ties with the bloc, mainly by arresting war  crimes fugitives, EU Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Thursday.
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Serbia&#39;s central bank governor has  said the country is currently in no condition to join the  European Union, and called on politicians to draw up a plan  quickly to lead it in the direction of membership.
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"I think Carla del Ponte was the only one who was impressed by Tolimir's arrest"  BELGRADE  - 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.Linking two issues the EU says are unrelated, Kostunica suggested negotiations on a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) could hinge on EU states accepting that the breakaway province must remain part of Serbia."Today's restart of talks on the SAA offers a good opportunity for the EU to show clearly that it looks on Serbia as a partner, which means full respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia," he said in a statement. Read more
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EU foreign ministers offer to resume talks on closer ties with Serbia if the country takes steps to catch war crimes suspects.
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BRUSSELS/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.
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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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The European Union will not sign a pact on ties with Serbia this week as planned after its nationalist prime minister blocked the move, a top EU official said on Wednesday.
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Serbia has intensified its search for Gen. Ratko Mladic and three other war crimes fugitives before a fact-finding visit this week by a chief U.N. prosecutor who has questioned Serbia's commitment to finding the suspects, officials said Wednesday.
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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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Talks on the future of Serbia&#39;s  breakaway province of Kosovo must not drag on indefinitely or  get sidetracked in an arid dispute over labels such as  &quot;independence,&quot; senior European officials said on Tuesday.
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Serbia has the political will to arrest top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, but some state officials are still stalling, United Nations chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Friday.
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The European Union will resume talks  with Serbia on closer ties next week after Belgrade boosted  cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former  Yugoslavia, the EU&#39;s executive said on Thursday.