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...Washington is not insisting that Mr. Milosevic be transferred immediately to The Hague, where he is under indictment for war crimes for Serbian actions before and during the 1999 Kosovo war. But its official policy remains that Mr. Milosevic face charges in The Hague.
The Americans want the Yugoslav government to state publicly that it will "ultimately cooperate" with the Hague tribunal on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia "on international charges against Milosevic"; that it will also cooperate with the tribunal on any investigation of Mr. Milosevic's assets; and that it will provide the tribunal access "to documents of real importance."
Belgrade is also being asked to pass a law that would allow transfer of indicted people to The Hague without making any prior determination of guilt or innocence...
For American aid to continue, President Bush must certify to Congress by March 31 that the Belgrade government is cooperating with the Dayton agreement, furthering human rights and cooperating with the Hague tribunal. Otherwise, non-humanitarian American aid of $100 million this fiscal year will be cut off; about half of it is not yet disbursed...
After consultations in Washington last week, the American ambassador here, William D. Montgomery, delivered the demands in a three-page list to President Vojislav Kostunica of Yugoslavia, Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic of Serbia and other senior officials.
The list is titled "Specific actions that would contribute to a positive March 31 certification." It includes taking "steps to expel Bosnian Serb indictees" from Yugoslavia and making all military cooperation with the Bosnian Serb republic transparent...
But they add that the Bush administration is under pressure to deny certification for Belgrade from numerous human-rights and nongovernmental organizations, which see Mr. Kostunica as trying to block Mr. Milosevic's immediate arrest and extradition to The Hague. Senators Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, and Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, have written Secretary of State Colin L. Powell urging a cutoff of aid.
Nothing more than variations on the same theme.
Djindjic was on a two-day visit to Germany. German companies will heavily invest in railroads, metal industry and other areas in Serbia, and they don't care about Hague and Carla del Ponte. In the end, the US will only lose. The US practically lost militarilly (since they are not capable of controlling situation), and they will lose economically, as far as Balkans is concerned.
It is getting increasingly hard to delineate between the policies of the left and right. Maybe the puppets have been changed, but the same puppetmaster is still pulling the strings.
Only Nixon could go to China.
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