THE DEAD SET A STATE BORDER IN CEMENT
By Tamara Kaliterna
Three years ago, at the day of the season when people care about leaves
and care about the health of children unknown to them, while marking the World
Environmental Day, international forensic experts started digging at the location the
witnesses from Kosovo identified as the 17th mass grave of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia. All
they found were scattered pieces of clothing and footwear. Four days later, dredgers of
many colors left the forsaken quarry nearby Rudnica, some hundred meters away from the
Raska-Kosovska Mitrovica highway, at the "administrative" border... More >>> |
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National Minority
Councils Elected
MINORITIES MORE
RELIABLE THAN THE STATE
By Pavel Domonji
In early June 2010, members of Serbia's minority communities finally
went to the polls to cast a ballot for their national councils. Out of 19 minority
councils, 16 were elected directly and three at electoral assemblies. New elections will
be called for only one minority council: a sufficient number of electors did not attend
the electoral assembly for the Macedonian National Council. According to available
information, more than one half of registered voters turned at the polls (237,792 out of
436,334 persons). Minister of Human and Minority... More >>> |
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Regional Prospects after
the Summit Conferences at Brdo and Sarajevo
EUROPEAN
PRAGMATISM IN THE BALKANS
By Davor Gjenero
To all appearances, the effects of the referendum on ratification of
the arbitration agreement on demarcation between Slovenia and Croatia, held in Slovenia on
June 6, 2010, will benefit more the process of Western Balkans consolidation than the
effects of the EU Ministerial Conference in Sarajevo of June 2. All the Sarajevo Summit
attained was due to the "Gymnich format," a model for informal meetings of
foreign ministers of EU member-states displaying no national symbols or official functions
of the participants and as such... More >>> |
