STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reuters; Associated Press; Agence France Presse. 21 June 2001. Yugoslav Reformers [read: procapitalists] to Withdraw War Crimes Bill. Combined reports. BELGRADE -- Yugoslavia's reformist leaders said on Thursday they would withdraw a bill on cooperation with the U.N war crimes court after they failed to resolve differences over the measure with their partner in government. The junior partner, the Montenegrin Socialist People's Party (SNP), said it was sticking by its stance of opposing any law allowing war crimes suspects like ex-president Slobodan Milosevic to be transferred to the tribunal in The Hague. The SNP, a one-time coalition ally of Milosevic's Socialists, insists the tribunal is biased and that no suspects should be transferred to it. "It is ridiculous to demand that we change our minds and act against our convictions," Predrag Bulatovic, head of the Montenegrin lawmakers, said after talks failed. Serbia's DOS [capitalist] reform alliance, the senior partner in the coalition, needs SNP support to pass the law, which is widely seen as crucial to securing badly needed Western funds for Yugoslavia at an international donors' conference next week. Zdenko Tomovic, one of Milosevic's lawyers, claimed that a helicopter was ready to transport Milosevic out of his jail and hand him over to the tribunal authorities. A parliamentary session to discuss the law had been scheduled for Thursday but was moved to Friday to give the two sides more time to look for compromise. Reformers said the bill would now be removed from the agenda. [However, a]n anonymous source quoted by the English language newsletter VIP said "something important" could take place in the coming days. The VIP newsletter, quoting an anonymous source, said the DOS had decided to go ahead regardless with the extradition of Milosevic, if the SNP maintained its opposition. "It is almost certain that something important will happen in the next few days," the bulletin said. Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said on Wednesday that the law could simply be withdrawn [!!!!!!] if the SNP refused to back it, and on Thursday, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic echoed that statement. .............................. Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/downwithcapitalism Proletarian news & Leninist debate ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
