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Ex-EU Envoy Owen Likely Prosecution Witness At Karadzic Trial THE HAGUE (AFP)--David Owen, European Union special envoy to the former Yugoslavia, is likely to be called as a prosecution witness in the trial of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, a court document said Thursday. "The prosecution wishes to notify the trial chamber and the accused that Owen remains on the...witness list and that the prosecution intends to call him as a witness at trial," said a notification published by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. On Monday, the court rejected a prosecution motion to have Owen called as a neutral witness in a bid to avoid compromising the perceived neutrality of future international negotiators. Neutral witnesses are called by the court itself, rather than by the prosecution or defense. Owen, a former U.K. foreign secretary, was one of the authors of the Vance- Owen peace plan in 1993 which failed to put an end to the Bosnian war. Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade in July last year after 13 years on the run. He faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, which he denies. Bosnia's inter-ethnic war cost 100,000 lives and left the country split into two highly autonomous entities - the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs' Republika Srpska. 07-16-090700ET --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "serbia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/serbia -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
