Former Yugoslav Security agent transferred
to UN Wr Crimes Tribunal
30 May - A former senior Yugoslav intelligence
agent was transferred from Serbia to the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
in The Hague today to face charges of crimes against humanity
for murder and ethnic cleansing of Croats and Muslims in Croatia
and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the court said. FULL
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UN celebrates first International Day
of Peacekeepers
29 May - The United Nations today observed
the first International
Day of UN Peacekeepers with a pledge from Secretary-General
Kofi Annan that the world body’s peacekeeping mission
would continue because, even if it cannot by itself end war,
it can help prevent a recurrence of fighting. FULL
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UN marks 10-year anniversary of War Crimes
Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia
23 May - Ten years after the Security
Council set up a tribunal to prosecute war crimes committed
in the former Yugoslavia, it can be "justly proud"
of the important achievements in recording the crimes that scarred
the Balkans in the 1990s, the president of the United Nations
court said today. FULL
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UN envoy says Balkan border security
needed to boost economy
23 May - The top United Nations official
in Kosovo has called on western Balkan countries to ensure secure
borders in order to solve their economic difficulties, including
unemployment. FULL
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Set of 29 mortal remains in Serbia repatriated
to Kosovo
22 May - A group of 29 mortal remains
believed to belong to Kosovars who had been in Serbia proper
is expected to be handed over Friday to family representatives,
the United Nations mission in Kosovo said today. FULL
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UN Tribunal accepts guilty plea of Serb
Commander during Srebrenica siege
21 May - The United Nations International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
today accepted a guilty plea from a Bosnian Serb commander during
the 1995 siege of Srebrenica on charges of persecution as a
crime against humanity. FULL
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UN envoy says Kosovo Assembly's resolution
'divisive'
15 May - The provisional local authorities
in Kosovo were today excluded from United Nations delegations
to three forthcoming international meetings after the provincial
assembly passed a resolution that the top UN official there
called "divisive" and against the spirit of avoiding
a return to Kosovo's violent past. FULL
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Long-time UN official Maryan Baquerot
dies
14 May – Secretary-General Kofi
Annan today expressed sadness at the sudden death of a long-time
United Nations official, Maryan Baquerot. FULL
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Kosovo mission at its most difficult
and delicate phase - UN envoy
8 May - The top United Nations official
in Kosovo said today the UN mission there had entered “what
is perhaps its most critical and delicate phase” with
the transference of competencies to local provisional institutions.
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UN to aid repatriation of Kosovo Albanian
bodies from Serbia
7 May – The first group of some
800 bodies exhumed in Serbia proper, and believed to be of Kosovo
Albanian missing persons, will be repatriated under United Nations
auspices tomorrow. FULL
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