U.S. senator wants to cut off aid to Serbia

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer will ask Congress to cut off aid given to Serbia because of the Miladin Kovačević case.

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Tuesday, 05.08.2008.

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U.S. Senator Charles Schumer will ask Congress to cut off aid given to Serbia because of the Miladin Kovacevic case. Kovacevic (21), the Serbian student accused of assaulting a classmate during a barroom brawl in New York, did not appear for questioning in the U.S. U.S. senator wants to cut off aid to Serbia “There was a deadline—August 1, set by the State Department. He didn’t respect it,” said the Democrat senator from New York, adding that for this reason he would ask Congress to reassess the assistance the U.S. currently allocates to Serbia to the tune of USD 50mn. “I’m currently looking into which foreign aid would be most effective to cut off in order to exert the maximum pressure. I will do this in September,” Schumer told local TV station News 10. Schumer and fellow Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton have warned Serbia of “serious consequences” for failure to cooperate in the Kovacevic case. In May of this year, the Serbian student, who was spending a year studying in the U.S., got into a fight with classmate Bryan Steinhauer in a bar at the University of Binghamton campus, in northern New York state. Steinhauer was left in a coma after the incident. Kovacevic is accused of assaulting his colleague and inflicting grievous bodily harm. He was released on bail of USD 100,000, after which he returned to Serbia. He surrendered his passport to the U.S. authorities, but nonetheless managed to leave the U.S. after receiving temporary travel documents from the Serbian consul in New York. “We won’t rest until Kovacevic returns to the U.S. to face justice,“ said Schumer. Kovacevic’s parents told a press conference in early July in Belgrade that their son had not done what he had been accused of in the U.S., and that he had been trying to break up a fight.

U.S. senator wants to cut off aid to Serbia

“There was a deadline—August 1, set by the State Department. He didn’t respect it,” said the Democrat senator from New York, adding that for this reason he would ask Congress to reassess the assistance the U.S. currently allocates to Serbia to the tune of USD 50mn.

“I’m currently looking into which foreign aid would be most effective to cut off in order to exert the maximum pressure. I will do this in September,” Schumer told local TV station News 10.

Schumer and fellow Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton have warned Serbia of “serious consequences” for failure to cooperate in the Kovačević case.

In May of this year, the Serbian student, who was spending a year studying in the U.S., got into a fight with classmate Bryan Steinhauer in a bar at the University of Binghamton campus, in northern New York state. Steinhauer was left in a coma after the incident.

Kovačević is accused of assaulting his colleague and inflicting grievous bodily harm. He was released on bail of USD 100,000, after which he returned to Serbia. He surrendered his passport to the U.S. authorities, but nonetheless managed to leave the U.S. after receiving temporary travel documents from the Serbian consul in New York.

“We won’t rest until Kovačević returns to the U.S. to face justice,“ said Schumer.

Kovačević’s parents told a press conference in early July in Belgrade that their son had not done what he had been accused of in the U.S., and that he had been trying to break up a fight.

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