Belgrade court

The setting of fire in 2008 to the U.S. embassy building in Belgrade continues to burden the two countries' bilateral relations.

This is what the U.S. embassy announced on Tuesday, reacting to yesterday's ruling of a Belgrade court that overturned the first-instance rulings against the defendants in the case.

The former chief of a police task force investigating the 1999 murder of an opposition journalist told a Belgrade court that his probe concluded that State Security was involved in the killing.

If Hashim Thaci were to travel to Belgrade, he would certainly be arrested - because a Belgrade court has issued a warrant for his arrest.

Acting War Crimes Prosecutor Milan Petrovic made this statement for the daily Vecernje Novosti.

BRUSSELS - Although the European Commission (EC) say they will analyze a ruling by a Belgrade court on non-extradition of three officials of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) to a war crimes tribunal in The Hague, they believe a consensus among the member states will be reached and Chapter 23 in EU accession talks with Serbia will be opened soon, Tanjug learned at the EC.
    

BRUSSELS - Although the European Commission (EC) say they will analyze a ruling by a Belgrade court on non-extradition of three officials of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) to a war crimes tribunal in The Hague, they believe a consensus among the member states will be reached and Chapter 23 in EU accession talks with Serbia will be opened soon, Tanjug learned at the EC.

BELGRADE - Serbia on Wednesday informed the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of a first-instance ruling by a Belgrade court stating that, under the Serbian law on cooperation with the tribunal, the conditions for extradition of three Serbian Radical Party (SRS) officials have not been met.

A Belgrade court acquitted former Serbian volunteer fighter Miodrag Zivkovic of raping two Bosniak women in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina during the war in 1992.

A Serbian man who was one of more than a dozen suspects convicted in the 2009 murder of a French football fan was arrested at Athens airport, authorities announced on Saturday.

Dejan Puzigaca, 34, was intercepted at Athens’ international airport on Wednesday when he arrived from Thailand via a stopover, police said.

Watchdog organisation Transparency Serbia told BIRN that the Nenadic case will be a good test of the effectiveness of the recently-adopted legislation protecting whisteblowers.

"This case will show how effective the new law is, because we haven't had such a case since the enactment of the law," said Bojana Medenica from Transparency Serbia.

A Belgrade court is to begin the process of rehabilitating Milan Nedic, leader of a Nazi-backed puppet government during WWII, who was branded a war criminal by the Yugoslav Communists.