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The Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA) announced that the US Commercial Centre, a specialised agency of the US Department of Commerce, declared Serbia-Montenegro the Market of the Month among 150 countries competing. The network of the US Commercial Centre comprises 107 American centres for export assistance throughout the USA and 150 offices abroad. Last year, they enabled 23 billion dollars worth of exports for the US and organised around 150,000 meetings with representatives of American companies. This recognition places Serbia-Montenegro in a group of economically developed countries which American partners can seriously count on. Markets of the Month...

Balkan failure is Clark's Who is responsible for an air offensive that is building anti-American anger across Europe without breaking the Serbian regime's will? The blame rests heavily on Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander. After 40 days, U.S.-dominated NATO air strikes no longer even pretend to aim solely at military targets. Pentagon sources admit that the attacks on the city center of Belgrade are intended to so demoralize ordinary citizens that they force President Slobodan Milosevic to yield. That has not yet happened, but diplomats believe the grave damage done to American prestige in Central and Eastern Europe...

THE HAGUE, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic's trial ground to a halt on Friday after he complained of exhaustion with judges concerned about the impact of his ailing health on Europe's biggest war crimes hearing since World War Two. The 61-year-old ex-Yugoslav leader, who has been advised by doctors to rest regularly because of high blood pressure, has been defending himself at The Hague since February against charges of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s. Judges at the U.N. court adjourned Friday's hearing within a matter of minutes after announcing Milosevic would not be taking his seat...