The Army Takes Sides In Montenegro
The long-running fight between the pro- and anti-Belgrade blocs in Montenegro has a new partisan, the Yugoslav Army, which has sided against the current Western-oriented leadership.
The long-running fight between the pro- and anti-Belgrade blocs in Montenegro has a new partisan, the Yugoslav Army, which has sided against the current Western-oriented leadership.
Not for the first time is the West humiliated at the court of Slobodan Milosevic.
For the people of the Republika Srpska, the international dismissal of Nikola Poplasen and the Brcko decision smacks of more than just bad timing.
The prospect of a sudden agreement is all but unimaginable and Kosovo Albanians are trying to adjust psychologically and practically to a radical shift from war to peace.
By Chief Correspondent Mirko Klarin & assistant reporter Vjera Bogati
NATO's bombing campaign represents the failure of Western policy. The real solution in the Balkans is democracy, but with one night's bombing, ten years’ work developing civil society has been all but wiped out.
The clearest loss from Rambouillet is international credibility. The fragile consensus on the NATO deadline may not be reassembled in March. If Milosevic didn't agree at Rambouillet, what could possibly compel him to agree a few weeks later?
In the end, fudge won. After an intensive two-week session enduring ‘chateau fever’, and some serious last-minute tension, Serbian and Albanian negotiating parties at the Kosovo talks in France came to a "provisional understanding" on the outlines of a de
Kosovo is the only political glue binding Belgrade's fractious governing coalition together. Milosevic's real problem will be after a deal, when Serbia finally has to face itself.
NATO jeeps and UN helicopters seem to be everywhere in Macedonia, as the international forces are expanded in anticipation of a Kosovo deployment. For its strong cooperation with the West, Skopje hopes to win big political and economic benefits.