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Vucic: We do not have to love each other but respect a must

ZAGREB - Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vucic has said that the Croatia-Serbia genocide case before the International Court of Justice in The Hague has created high tensions but that he believes that the two countries will find a solution.

Croat Leaders Congratulate Serbian Progressives

"I congratulate those who won such excellent election results," Pusic in Brussels, referring to last weekend's general election in neighbouring Serbia, in which the Serbian Progressive Party won a landslide victory.

Pusic, Kourkoulas: Congratulations to Serbia

BRUSSELS - The Foreign Minister of Croatia and Greece Monday sent their congratulations to Serbia for successfully holding its parliamentary elections on Sunday.

I congratulate all those who achieved good results, Croatia’s Minister Vesna Pusic told reporters ahead of the beginning of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on Monday.

Croatia's Forex scam should be a lesson, EP says

The biggest financial scam in Croatia will likely serve as a warning to citizens, who can also learn to be cautious through information from the EU.

Defendants wait to enter the Forex trial on February 20th. [Jutarnji.hr]

Serbs' disappearance from Krajina - goal of Operation Storm

THE HAGUE - Serbia's legal team underlined before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday that Operation Storm was the largest, single, ethnic cleansing campaign in living memory, which the Croatian authorities conducted with the genocidal intent to destroy the Krajina Serbs.

Malta decides to extradite Gojko Eror to Croatia

ZAGREB - A court in Malta has decided to extradite to Croatia Serb Gojko Eror, a construction worker suspected of crimes against humanity, abduction, torture and illegal imprisonment.

Parties retreat into election silence

BELGRADE - The campaign ended for the early parliamentary elections that will be held in Serbia on Sunday, March 16, and election silence will be in force until the close of polls at 8 p.m. the same day.

In these polls, 6,767, 324 citizens will be eligible to vote and elect 250 MPs for the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.

Croatia ‘Planned to Eradicate All Serbs’

The Croatian leadership’s goal under former president Franjo Tudjman was to expel the Serb population, Belgrade argued in its genocide suit against Zagreb at the International Court of Justice.

"Croatia and Franjo Tuđman wanted war"

THE HAGUE -- Advisor to the Serbian legal team in the genocide dispute with Croatia Wayne Jordash believes the Serbian counter-lawsuit is "more convincing" than Croatia's.

He told the newspaper Danas that evidence suggests that Croatia and its then President Franjo Tudjman "wanted war."

"Genocide as tool of ethnic cleansing"

THE HAGUE -- Legal team chief Saša Obradović on Thursday presented the evidence before the ICJ in Serbia's genocide counter-lawsuit against Croatia.

Bloggers: Genocide trials will have no winner

As the International Court of Justice begins hearing the Croatian and Serbian lawsuits, bloggers weigh in with their thoughts.

The judges at the International Court of Justice arrive for the start of the Croatia-Serbia genocide trial on March 10th. [AFP]

Croat officials assumed genocide as tool of ethnic cleansing

THE HAGUE - Agent of Serbia Sasa Obradovic presented the evidence before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday that Serbs from Kninska Krajina were destroyed as an ethnic group in Operation Storm in the summer of 1995, and that the genocidal intent of the then Croatian president Franjo Tudjman was realized in the operation.

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