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Article: Serbia promises to arrest war crimes suspect; cautions EU on Kosovo
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- March 29, 2008
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Serbia told the European Union on Saturday it soon will arrest war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, as the EU insists, but expressed concern that the dispute over Kosovo is driving the country further apart from the bloc.
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic spoke with EU foreign ministers in the first high-level EU-Serbia encounter since member nations began recognizing Kosovo's secession last month. To date, 18 of the 27 EU nations accept Kosovo's independence.
Jeremic said EU nations' recognition of Kosovo was dangerous, counterproductive and illegal and that it played into the hands of nationalists running in Serbia's May 11 elections.
He told the ministers it was not ...