Guess who has crawled out from under her rock to hurl more insults at Serbia for not having arrested Mladic yet....
Mon Oct 16, 2:09 PM ET
UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte lashed Serbia for failing to arrest former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, and urged the EU not to resume talks on closer ties with Belgrade.
"It is almost a smokescreen that they are describing and showing us, it is not real political will and investigative will to locate and arrest Mladic," she told journalists after talks with senior European Union officials.
"They have no strategy, they are not showing us the results of the work they are doing. It's an inquiry that heads off in all directions and achieves nothing," she said.
In May, Brussels suspended talks with Belgrade on a stabilisation and association agreement -- a first step toward joining the EU -- for failing to fully cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia.
The chief reason was that Serbia had not arrested Mladic, who has been indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. He was believed to have been hiding in Serbia.
"I hope the decision will be the confirmation of the suspension of negotiations," Del Ponte said, after talks with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country currently holds the EU's rotating presidency.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061016/wl_afp/euenlargeserbia_061016180904
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Before there was Iraq II (its own little piece of history), there were the conflicts in the countries of the "ex-Yugoslavia." Now Kosovo is exploding again, and it seems as if all the media and the pundits can do is rehash the old stories while new bodies pile up. Here is a place where we will attempt to give you a sense of the bigger picture.
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