Serbia files genocide lawsuit against Croatia
Source: B92
BELGRADE -- Serbia has filed its genocide countersuit against Croatia on Monday before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The suit was submitted by Serbia’s legal representative Saša Obradović.
The document includes information on crimes committed against Croatia's ethnic Serb population in Gospić, Sisak, Pakračka Poljana, Karlovac, Osijek, Paulin Dvor, Medački Džep (Medak Pocket), and during the so-called Operation Storm.
The court has been given information on victims, and not only those that were killed in conflicts between 1991-1995, but also those murdered after the war as they tried to return to their homes they left as refugees.
The lawsuit against Croatia contains a historical account of Serbo-Croatian relations, with a focus on World War II. In this context, the massive killing of Serbs in the Jasenovac concentration camp will also be mentioned.
Croatia filed genocide charges against Serbia to the ICJ in The Hague immediately after the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, calling for the Belgrade to punish all perpetrators of war crimes and to return cultural property to Croatia and pay for war damages as well, in an amount to be confirmed by the court.
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BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić on Monday opened the two-day Ambassadors' Conference in Belgrade.
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BELGRADE -- Opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Čedomir Jovanović spoke against Serbia's genocide countersuit against Croatia.
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanović said that Montenegro should think hard before establishing diplomatic relations with Kosovo.
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BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said that Serbia does not want sue Croatia, rather build good neighborly relations and cooperation on the road to EU integration.
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BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said that new biometric passports began being handed out in Serbia on the day on which the visa liberalization took effect.
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COLOGNE -- Bulgaria will support Serbia joining the EU, but it's not likely it will change its position on Kosovo, says that country's ambassador in Belgrade.
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BELGRADE -- Head of the Vojvodina government Bojan Pajtić said on Friday he expects the Vojvodina statute to go into effect fully in 2010.
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BELGRADE -- Minister for Diaspora Srđan Srećković says that his ministry will "continue to improve relations" with Serbs living abroad.
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WASHINGTON -- Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos says he strongly supports Serbia's decision to submit its EU candidate status bid.
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ZAGREB -- Croatian PM Jadranka Kosor says that Croatia is "still turned toward good neighborly relations".
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BELGRADE -- International law expert Tibor Varadi has said that the Serbian government's decision to counter-sue Croatia was a "logical move".
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BELGRADE -- FM Vuk Jeremić says that "there is no doubt after 2009" that Serbia is the region's leader, "and its strategic point".
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BELGRADE -- The Serbian government has decided to sue Croatia for genocide before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.
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BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić will be taking a trip to the Ground Safety Zone (GSZ) on Sunday, it was announced in Belgrade today.
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BELGRADE -- FM Vuk Jeremić says Serbia has the capacity and resolve to "break all records in 2010", when it comes to the speed of joining the EU.
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PODGORICA -- Montenegrin PM Milo Đukanović once again spoke about Kosovo, to claim that attempting to "revise its independence" was "a waste of time".
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PODGORICA -- Filip Vujanović says that he will sign a decree appointing an ambassador to Priština "once Kosovo recognizes Montenegrins as an ethnic minority".
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BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković stated on Wednesday that the key government goals were realized in 2009.
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BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said that Serbia will be working within the framework of NATO, "even if it does not become a member-state".
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BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić wished the Serbian citizens a happy New Year with hopes that 2010 will be "much easier on them than this year".
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BELGRADE, PRIŠTINA -- Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says Croat President Stjepan Mesić's "honorary citizen of Pristina" accolade represents interference in Serbia's internal affairs.
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BELGRADE -- Newly-elected judges and deputy prosecutors have been sworn in at Wednesday’s parliamentary session by Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović.
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GRAČANICA -- Goran Lazić of the Independent Liberal Party (SLS) was named the assembly speaker in Gračanica at the assembly’s constitutive session.
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BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić says he will be visiting Kosovo soon in order to show that Serbia is not giving up on the fight for the province and its citizens there.
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BELGRADE -- Opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Čedomir Jovanović says there is "no place" for his party in the present government.
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BELGRADE -- The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) MP Balint Pastor says the government has a stable majority in parliament.
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BELGRADE -- The Serbian government adopted a bill on Tuesday banning smoking in closed work or public places.
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BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament elected 876 judges to three-year mandates in general and special courts around the country.
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BERLIN -- German diplomat Andreas Zobel, who served as ambassador to Serbia, died today aged 56.
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BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that the genocide countersuit against Croatia has been prepared, but that he hopes the case would never proceed.
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BELGRADE -- Newly elected MP of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) Goran Cvetanović has returned his mandate, to join the Serb Progressive Party (SNS).
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BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament on Tuesday the Law on Emergency Situations, reports said.
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BELGRADE -- Rasim Ljajić has resigned as one of the coordinators of the Action Team for cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.
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BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić will this evening take part in a live program broadcast by the state television RTS.
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BELGRADE -- State Auditor Radoslav Sretenović said that complaints against those who used budget funds irregularly will be submitted after January 1.
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BELGRADE -- The Belgrade City Assembly on Monday decided to take out loans to finance investment projects in Serbia's capital city.
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BELGRADE -- The Spanish state secretary for European affairs says his country will "encourage" Serbia and the West Balkans in the EU integration process.
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PRIŠTINA -- Fatmir Sejdiu says he will not invite President Boris Tadić to a "mini summit of presidents of Kosovo's neighboring countries".
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BELGRADE -- Finance Minister Diana Dragutinović said on Monday in Belgrade that as of next February there would be fewer staff in the public sector.
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BELGRADE -- The coalition between the Democratic Party (DS) and the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) in Subotica ended effectively on Monday.
