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...recently told a Belgrade newspaper that he has never been implicated by the Hague war-crimes tribunal and that "I'm ready to go to court to prove my innocence if it turns out to be necessary." A U.S. State Department official, meanwhile, would confirm only that Serbian and Montenegrin officials visited U.S. military leaders in Washington and at Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., last week for consultations on their possible participation in the Afghanistan campaign. Radosavljevic was not part of that delegation--he sent his deputy instead. --By Dejan Anastasijevic
...Radosavljevic was never indicted. A New York court is also considering charges that he and other police officials are responsible for the execution of three Albanian-Americans. A senior Serbian security official tells TIME the general, who denies the allegations, "insists that he command the unit." Serbian and Montenegrin officials visited U.S. military leaders last week to talk about participation in Afghanistan. Radosavljevic was not part of the delegation, but was represented by his deputy...
...sleep. On 14 March, representatives of Yugoslavia and its two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, announced that they had agreed to a new, looser structure for Yugoslavia along with a new name for the federation ? Serbia and Montenegro. The decision must now be ratified by the Yugoslav, Serbian, and Montenegrin parliaments. the whole story...
...EU’s enthusiasm for the new confederation is simple: a “united” Serbia and Montenegro undermines the Montenegrin independence movement. Although these secessionists constitute a marginal number of the 600,000 Montenegrins in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, they are, nevertheless, an incendiary force. And increasingly the West has feared that they might start a fire in the Balkans, particularly among the Hungarians in Vojvodina or the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, who have twice the ethnic representation of the Montenegrins. By aligning Montenegro once again with Serbia, the EU can maintain the status quo?...
...those in the Djukanovic camp, the federation with Serbia is unsustainable. Sharing power between such lopsided republics will entrench Montenegro's junior status, says Montenegrin Foreign Minister Branko Lukovac. "Either Belgrade suffers a little bit [when we leave] or we gradually disappear." Instead, Djukanovic wants a "union of independent states" based on the E.U. model. His political opponents counter that, despite his ample voter support, the whole scheme is simply an attempt to cling to power at any cost...