FIAT baut eine Produktion mit den ZAZTAVA Werken in Serbien auf

3.7.2008 von CrniLabudovi.

FIAT will bereits ab naechsten Jahr 200.000 Fahrzeuge in Serbien in den Zastava Werken produzieren.

Es wirft sich die Frage auf, wo denn nun die Deutschen Investoren wie ehemals VW etc.. bleiben? Mit den kriminellen DUMM Beratern und Politischen Korruptions Banden aus dem Hause des AA, BMZ und der GTZ haben Deutsche Politische Investoren auf dem Balkan vollkommen verspielt, wie auch die Anklage gegen Siemens in Griechenland zeigt.

Fiat coming to Serbia

02/07/2008

A well-known carmaker is investing in Serbia, maybe presaging a surge of foreign investment as President Boris Tadic nominates an EU-friendly prime minister.

By Davor Konjikusic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade — 02/07/08

Fiat will create 10,000 jobs and plans to assemble complete cars in Serbia by the end of 2009. [Getty Images]

With confirmation of a pro-EU government in Belgrade expected this week, the announcement in May that the Italian automaker Fiat is coming to Serbia may foreshadow a surge in western investment.

President Boris Tadic’s nomination of Finance Minister and fellow Democrat Mirko Cvetkovic to be prime minister indicates a Serbian effort, predicted by numerous observers, to attract sceptical foreign investors and raise living standards. Long blocked by wars and international sanctions, Serbia now trails Romania and Bulgaria in per capita GDP and greenfield investments.

Fiat reached an agreement with the Serbian government before the May 11th elections about investing in Zastava, an existing auto plant, in the city of Kragujevac.

Under the deal, Fiat plans to invest around 700m euros in Zastava and acquire a 70% stake in the factory, while Serbia controls the remaining 30%. Most of the investment will come through Fiat’s partners, which plan to build new factories for auto parts. The Fiat move will create 10,000 jobs, and Fiat plans to assemble complete cars in Serbia by the end of 2009.

This is the “job of the century” for Kragujevac, a city in central Serbia, where economic transitions cost many workers their jobs.

Next year Fiat plans to produce around 200,000 cars in Serbia, and by the end of 2010 that number should grow to 300,000. Observers expect Fiat in Kragujevac to produce one A model and one B model each. These cars will debut soon on the world stage. ….

Setimes

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Solana - Wesle Clark and the KLA Organ Harvesting Atrocity

2.7.2008 von CrniLabudovi.

June 30, 2008

KLA Organ Harvesting Atrocity

Kosovo Albanian Organ Harvesting Atrocities Investigated by the Council of Europe

On Wednesday, June 25, the Council of Europe appointed Swiss senator Dick Marty to investigate charges that Kosovo Albanian terrorist KLA (UCK) were using kidnapped Kosovo-Metohija Serbs to harvest their organs for sale during and after the civil war in southern Serbian province.

The charges that Kosovo Albanians, led by the war criminals currently governing Kosovo and Metohija province — Hashim Thaci, Agim Ceku and Ramush Haradinaj — had profited from selling human organs of abducted Serbs were first brought forth in the book “The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals” by Carla Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal in the Hague.

Del Ponte’s book describes the plight of one group of some 300 Kosovo province Serbs, who were transported to neighboring Albania in 1999, while NATO troops were already present in the province, where they were held in camps and subjected to forced organ extractions. United States-based non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch said it has corroborated Del Ponte’s allegations.

Responding to requests by the Russian Federation, the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly decided that the charges merit a full investigation. Dick Marty, a Swiss lawyer who became famous for investigating CIA secret torture chambers and rendition flights through Europe, was asked by the 47-nation pan-European organization to investigate the most morbid chain of war crimes after the WWII.

Both Del Ponte and a number of Serbs have pointed to the involvement of UNMIK officials who prevented earlier investigations and averted each attempt to reach the kidnapped Serbs while they were still alive and held imprisoned by the Albanian KLA butchers in improvised camps throughout Kosovo-Metohija province, suggesting that the logistics and the scope of these atrocities went far beyond the KLA terrorists and that some of the top Western politicians and senior UNMIK leaders were involved in the harrowing series of war crimes.

In an article published yesterday, Belgrade daily offers transcript of the secretly taped conversation between Javier Solana and Wesley Clark, contents of which indicates that NATO leaders were not only aware of the ongoing monstrosity, but also involved in it.

…One Summer Evening in Swiss Alps: Wesley Clark and Javier Solana

Translation of the article and transcript of conversation published by Belgrade daily Kurir

NATO leaders Wesley Clark and Javier Solana knew that the international forces in Kosovo are dealing in trafficking of the human organs and drugs, and were most probably involved in these deals. Former NATO chief commander, American General Wesley Clark and then-NATO Secretary General Javier Solana have met on August 15, 2001, in a villa rented in Swiss Alps.

Kurir has obtained the transcript of the conversation between the two NATO leaders, which confirms many suspicions regarding the trade in human organs, as well as the drug trafficking. The trade of human organs is a subject of both Hague tribunal investigation and the investigation by the Council of Europe, recently initiated by the Russian Federation.

Kurir will publish the complete Solana-Clark conversation. That evening, two young women were also with them, to help improve the mood of the two officials. They chatted in a relaxed atmosphere, sipping cocktails.

Clark: I’ll visit Kosovo in few days…

Solana: Be careful. The narco-dealer gangs are roaming through Kosovo. There is no law, no control there… Hm, we made a big mistake when we allowed these [Albanians] to rule.

Clark: Yeah… maybe.

Solana: This is all the fault of CIA operatives… All they care about is drugs and their business…

Clark: Yes, I know how things are down there… I often go to Kosovo, mostly incognito, it’s safer that way. But, now I have to finish one business. We have to transfer a load to Fort Bragg.

Solana: Hopefully, it’s not that urgent… Are you talking about the organs?

Clark: Yes, yes…

Solana: Bondsteel is doing a good job. Schlaphcock (spelling unknown) [man in charge for the U.S. military camp security] and Kouchner [Bernard, first UNMIK head, now Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, suspected of also being involved in the organ harvesting and trade] are doing their jobs excellently…

Clark: Right. It seems it’s urgent now. There are constant meetings with General Anderson. Once I finish this, I’d drop by Serbia. What do you think, how will they receive me?

Solana: Don’t worry, they’ll be good. These ones in Belgrade are much more obedient even than those in Podgorica [Montenegro]. In Montenegro the presidents can be changed, but Milo [Djukanovic, former and current Montengro premier] is pulling all the strings, because he uses money to buy everything. Once you get to Belgrade, avoid contacts with Kostunica and his people… Relations between him and Djindjic have gone rather cold… Although, I think Djindjic is right, Kostunica is not easy for cooperation. You know, when you talk to him, he always listens very carefully, but in the end of the conversation he always sharpens things up. We could never reach the full agreement with him on anything.

Clark: How do you think they’ll react to this about the TV station [Belgrade RTS TV station that was razed during NATO aggression, in violation of the Geneva Convention, killing 16 staff members]? You know that I wrote in my book that I have personally picked the targets…

Solana: Yes, I know, I’ve seen that.

Clark: But you also know how much Clinton and his were pressing for bombardment of the Serbian television…

Solana: What we know stays between us! You mustn’t talk about that with anyone!

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Iran: The Coming Catastrophe?

2.7.2008 von CrniLabudovi.

The Coming Catastrophe?
The finishing touches on several contingency plans for attacking Iran

by David DeBatto

Global Research, June 23, 2008

We bring to the attention of our readers David DeBatto’s scenario as to what might occur if one of the several contingency plans to attack Iran, with the participation of Israel and NATO, were to be carried out. While one may disagree with certain elements of detail of the author’s text, the thrust of this analysis must be taken seriously.

“Israel has said a strike on Iran will be “unavoidable” if the Islamic regime continues to press ahead with alleged plans for building an atom-bomb.” (London Daily Telegraph, 6/11/200

“Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany joined President Bush on Wednesday in calling for further sanctions against Iran if it does not suspend its uranium enrichment program.” Mr. Bush stressed again that “all options are on the table,” which would include military force. (New York Times, 6/11/200

We are fast approaching the final six months of the Bush administration. The quagmire in Iraq is in its sixth painful year with no real end in sight and the forgotten war in Afghanistan is well into its seventh year. The “dead enders” and other armed factions are still alive and well in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan again controls most of that country. Gas prices have now reached an average of $4.00 a gallon nationally and several analysts predict the price will rise to $5.00-$6.00 dollars per gallon at the pump by Labor Day. This, despite assurances by some major supporters of the decision to invade Iraq that the Iraq war “will pay for itself” (Paul Wolfowitz) or that we will see “$20.00 per barrel” oil prices if we invade Iraq (Rupert Murdoch).

One thing the Pentagon routinely does (and does very well) is conduct war games. Top brass there are constantly developing strategies for conducting any number of theoretical missions based on real or perceived threats to our national security or vital interests. This was also done prior to the invasion of Iraq, but the Bush administration chose not to listen to the dire warnings about that mission given to him by Pentagon leaders, or for that matter, by his own senior intelligence officials. Nevertheless, war gaming is in full swing again right now with the bullseye just to the right of our current mess – Iran. ………

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

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Moldawien und die NATO - Russland Verbindung

2.7.2008 von CrniLabudovi.

02.07.2008 / Ausland / Seite 7Inhalt

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Moldawien schert aus

Treffen der GUAM-Gruppe: Georgien, Aserbaidschan und Ukraine auf dem Weg in die NATO. Republik Moldau prüft Annäherung an Moskau

Von Tomasz Konicz

Am Dienstag kamen in der georgischen Hafenstadt Batumi die Präsidenten und Spitzenpolitiker der prowestlichen GUAM-Gruppe zusammen. Auf dem Gipfel wurde vor allem der Aufbau einer umfassenden Kooperation besprochen. Bislang galt die Sicherheitsallianz der Länder Georgien, Ukraine, Aserbaidschan und Moldawien als eher lockeres Bündnis. Die Delegationen diskutierten erstmals auch ökonomische Fragen, wie den Ausbau der Verkehrsinfrastruktur und die energiepolitische Zusammenarbeit.

So kündigte beispielsweise der aserbaidschanische Staatschef Ilcham Alijew an, die Gasexporte Aserbaidschans nach Georgien zu intensivieren und somit die Abhängigkeit der mit Moskau zerstrittenen südkaukasischen Republik von russischen Erdgas zu mindern. GUAM habe ein »großes ökonomisches Potential«, betonte der aserbaidschanische Wirtschaftsminister Natig Alijew nach Gesprächen mit seiner georgischen Amtskollegin Ekaterina Scharaschidse, bei denen eine bessere Nutzung und Koordination der Transportkapazitäten beider Länder erörtert wurde. Zudem einigten sich die GUAM-Staaten auf einen Zusammenarbeit ihrer Grenzpolizeieinheiten ab 2009.

Das diesjährige Treffen der west­orientierten Allianz stand unter dem Motto »GUAM einigt den Osten Europas«, und deren Generalsekretär Waleri Tschetschelaschwili machte auch klar, welches »Europa« hier gemeint sei: Man suche die Nähe der Europäischen Union, erklärte Tschetschelaschwili gegenüber der Presse.

Überschattet wurde der Gipfel von moldauischen Absetzbewegungen. So sagte die Ministerpräsidentin der Republik Moldau, Zinaida Greceanii, ihre Teilnahme kurzfristig ab und ließ sich durch ihren Innenminister vertreten. In einem Interview mit der russischen Tageszeitung Kommersant deutete der moldauische Präsident Wladimir Woronin sogar eine prinzipielle, geopolitische Umorientierung Moldawiens in Richtung Moskau an. Man sei enttäuscht darüber, daß eine vom ukrainischen Odessa bis ins polnische Gdansk geplante Ölpipeline nicht über moldauisches Territorium verlaufen soll, klagte der moldauische Staatschef. »Darüber hinaus ereigneten sich im letzten Jahr sehr merkwürdige Dinge. Gespräche über die Errichtung eigener Friedenstruppen wurden eingeleitet«, warnte Woronin. »Wir haben aber bereits international anerkannte russische Friedenstruppen, wozu brauchen wir noch mehr?« fragte der moldauische Präsident in Bezug auf die russischen Militärkontingente in den abtrünnigen Regionen Abchasien und Südossetien, die sich nach blutigen Bürgerkriegen in den 1990er Jahren von Georgien abspalteten.

Diese neue moldauische Distanz könnte aber auch mit einer zunehmenden Ankopplung der GUAM-Saaten an die Nato in Zusammenhang stehen. Wie die russische Nesawissimaja Gaseta kurz vor dem Gipfel in Batumi meldete, soll bereits im Juli bei geheimen Sicherheitsberatungen ein »Nato-Beitritt Aserbaidschans zur Sprache kommen.« Damit wäre Aserbaidschan neben der Ukraine und Georgien das dritte Mitgliedsland der GUAM-Gruppe, »dessen Aufnahme in die Nato westliche Vertreter offen fordern«, kommentierte die russische Nachrichtenagentur RIA-Nowosti.

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COURT INVALIDATES DETAINEE’S “ENEMY COMBATANT” STATUS

2.7.2008 von CrniLabudovi.

COURT INVALIDATES DETAINEE’S “ENEMY COMBATANT” STATUS

A federal appeals panel found that the designation of a Chinese
detainee held in U.S. custody as an “enemy combatant” was “not valid”
because the classified evidence offered by the government was not
sufficient to sustain the charge.

In the first legal challenge to enemy combatant status, Huzaifa Parhat,
an ethnic Uighur, admitted to being an enemy of the People’s Republic of
China but denied any connection with al Qaida or the Taleban and
specifically denied that he was an enemy of the United States.

Military prosecutors argued that he qualified as an enemy combatant
because he was “affiliated” with military forces that were “associated”
with al Qaida and the Taleban.

In a straightforward but nevertheless thrilling exercise of judicial
authority, judges said that the classified evidentiary basis for that
argument could not be independently validated and was therefore
inadequate.

“We must be able to assess the reliability of that evidence ourselves,”
the judges wrote.

“The government suggests that several of the assertions in the
intelligence documents are reliable because they are made in at least
three different documents. We are not persuaded,” the court said.

Adding a literary flourish, the judges wrote that “the fact that the
government has ’said it thrice’ does not make an allegation true. See
LEWIS CARROLL, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK 3 (1876) (’I have said it
thrice: What I tell you three times is true.’).”

Likewise, they wrote, “the government insists that the statements made
in the [classified evidentiary] documents are reliable because the
State and Defense Departments would not have put them in intelligence
documents were that not the case. This comes perilously close to
suggesting that whatever the government says must be treated as true,
thus rendering superfluous both the role of the Tribunal and the role
that Congress assigned to this court.”

In a court of law, the prosecution must prove its case and not simply
assert it, the judges explained.

“We […] reject the government’s contention that it can prevail by
submitting documents that read as if they were indictments or civil
complaints, and that simply assert as facts the elements required to
prove that a detainee falls within the definition of enemy combatant.
To do otherwise would require the courts to rubber-stamp the
government’s charges,” the ruling stated.

The court also denied a government request to block public disclosure
of certain unclassified information in the trial record, including
material marked “Law Enforcement Sensitive.”  (The new ruling is
apparently the first to cite President Bush’s memorandum on “controlled
unclassified information” that was published on May 9, 2008.)

Significantly, the court rejected the government’s attempt
“unilaterally to determine whether information is ‘protected’.”
Sealing the judicial record, the judges said, is a decision for the
court to make.

“Without an explanation tailored to the specific information at issue,
we are left with no way to determine whether it warrants protection –
other than to accept the government’s own designation. This we cannot
do.”

Instead, the government was directed to file a new motion “accompanied
by pleadings specifically explaining why protected status is required
for the information that has been marked. Opposing counsel may file a
response, and the government may file a reply, pursuant to our usual
rules.”

The classified June 20, 2008 ruling in Huzaifa Parhat v. Robert M.
Gates was redacted and approved for publication on June 30.  A copy is
available here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/parhat.pdf

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Wenn Kriminelle die Aussenpolitik leiten, kommt als Folge u.a. die Anklage gegen Siemens in Griechenland heraus

2.7.2008 von CrniLabudovi.

Man sollte dabei nicht vergessen, das der Absturz von Siemens, erst durch die kriminellen SPD Politiker und kriminelle Aussenminister moeglich ist und war!
Staatlich finanziert wird dieses Verbrecher Kartell u.a. durch die KfW, welche ja diese Bestechungs Projekte finanziert und reichlich die Deutschen Politiker mit Berater Vertraegen um die Verbrecher Organisation GTZ - BMZ versorgt.

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Die Welt als Schachbrett

Der neue Kalte Krieg des Obama-Beraters Zbigniew Brzezinski (Teil I)

Von Hauke Ritz

Stratege der globalen US-Vorherrschaft: Zbigniew Brzezinski (hier während einer Konferenz in der kroatischen Stadt Dubrovnik, 7.7.2007) Foto: AP

Der 1928 in Warschau geborene Zbig­niew Brzezinski gilt neben Henry M. Kissinger und Samuel P. Huntington als graue Eminenz unter den US-Geostrategen. Er trägt durch seine Beratertätigkeit für US-Präsident James Carter von 1977 bis 1981 u. a. eine Mitverantwortung an der Talibanisierung Afghanistans, unterstützten die Vereinigten Staaten doch die Mudschaheddin massiv im Kampf gegen die UdSSR. Nach Brzezinskis Bekunden wollten die USA die Sowjetunion in die »afghanische Falle« locken und ihnen so »ihr Vietnam« bereiten. Heute ist er Professor für Amerikanische Außenpolitik an der Johns-Hopkins-Universität in Baltimore, Berater am Zentrum für Strategische und Internationale Studien (CSIS) in Washington D.C. und Verfasser von politischen Sachbüchern. Daneben betätigt sich Brzezinski als Berater für mehrere große US-amerikanische und internationale Unternehmen. Unlängst geriet er wieder in die Schlagzeilen, als über die Medien verbreitet wurde, daß er in das außenpolitische Team des US-Präsidentschaftskandidaten Barack Obama eingetreten ist.

In dem folgenden Artikel untersucht Hauke Ritz die geopolitischen Konzepte Brzezinskis. Der jW-Beitrag ist die stark gekürzte Fassung eines Textes aus »Quo vadis, Amerika? Die Welt nach Bush«. Das 288 Seiten umfassende Buch mit 24 Beiträgen von u. a. Norman Birnbaum, Saskia Sassen und Immanuel Wallerstein ist soeben im Verlag der Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik erschienen und kostet 12 Euro (blaetter.de). (jW)

Die politischen Zyklen der westlichen Welt sind eng verknüpft mit den Amtszeiten amerikanischer Präsidenten. Mit jedem neuen US-Präsidenten verändert die Welt ein wenig ihren Charakter. So war die Präsidentschaft William Clintons mit einer optimistisch nach außen vertretenen Globalisierung verbunden. Was im Heimatland des Imperiums eine riesige Finanzblase erzeugte, führte allerdings von Südostasien über Rußland bis Argentinien zu einer ganzen Reihe von tragischen Wirtschaftskrisen. Die Amtszeit George W. Bushs war eng verknüpft mit dem »Krieg gegen den Terror«. Der selbsternannte Kriegspräsident gewöhnte die Welt an die Wiedereinführung von Folter und geheimen Gefängnissen. Nach acht Jahren Amtszeit ist das internationale Ansehen der Vereinigten Staaten stark beschädigt und beschränkt zunehmend auch den Bewegungsspielraum US-amerikanischer Außenpolitik.

Nun bereiten sich die Vereinigten Staaten erneut auf einen Regierungswechsel vor. Man fragt sich, welcher Flügel der Elite nun an die Macht kommen wird und womit die Welt als nächstes zu rechnen hat. Vieles deutet darauf hin, daß Barack Obama die besten Aussichten hat. Umso mehr stellt sich die Frage, wie der von ihm propagierte »Wandel« aussehen wird.

Obama wird von dem Multimilliardär Georg Soros und dem ehemaligen Sicherheitsberater unter Präsident James Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, unterstützt. Brzezinski ist zugleich als außenpolitischer Berater Obamas tätig. Als graue Eminenz unter den US-Geostrategen verkörpert er die Sichtweisen und Interessen eines ganzen Flügels der amerikanischen Elite. Aufgrund seines intellektuellen Ranges muß sein Einfluß sehr hoch veranschlagt werden. ….

http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/06-28/026.php 

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Croats Systematically Destroyed Serbian Population

26.6.2008 von CrniLabudovi.

June 25, 2008

Croats Systematically Destroyed Serbian Population

Franjo Tudjman, notorious Holocaust denier who famously declared he is “lucky his wife is neither Jewish, nor Serbian”, had flared the new wave of rabid Ustasa fervor at the start of 1990s and, together with Croatia’s current Premier Stipe Mesic, reintroduced the murderous policies from 1940s, when Croatia was allied with Hitler’s Germany.

He was never indicted by the Hague for the second genocide against Serbian population in Croatia, the one he planned and executed at the helm of the Croat state.

Galbraith: Ethnic Cleansing of Serbs was Croatia’s State Policy

Former US Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith who testified before the Hague tribunal on Monday, confirmed that ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Serbian Krajina region was a deliberate systematic operation and the state policy of Croat leadership, headed by Franjo Tudjman, which led to the mass scale ethnic cleansing in two blitzkrieg operations in 1995, codenamed Storm and Flash.

As a prosecution witness in the case against Tudjman’s generals Ante Gotovina, Mladen Markaca and Ivan Cermak — accused of conducting military operations aimed at forced and permanent removal of Serbian population from the Krajina region, including killing Serbian civilians and prisoners, expulsion, deportation, plunder of Serbian property, merciless destruction of Serbian-populated towns and villages and inhumane and cruel treatment — Galbraith stressed that this was Croatia’s state policy that continued to be enforced afterwards, preventing the expelled Serbs from returning to their homes and land in Croatia.

According to Galbraith, the systematic destruction and plunder of the Serbian property during the Storm, as well as prevention of their return, through the legal and other means undertaken after the operation, took place “because Croat state leadership — Tudjman and the gang around him — wanted it to happen, and they were happy when it did happen”.

Systematic Pogrom

“Once the Serbs were gone, Tudjman didn’t want them to return”, American diplomat said, adding that Croat state enacted legal measures to prevent the return of the expelled and refugees.

“The systematic destruction of Krajina was either ordered or permitted, but in any case, this was intended by the Croat leadership. I believe this was a deliberate policy of Zagreb government,” Galbraith stressed.

He said that Croat war-time president Tudjman, during their numerous meetings before the Operation Storm, was not hiding the fact he considers Serbian population in Krajina region “a strategic threat” to Croatia. His adviser Hrvoje Sarinic called Serbian population in Croatia a “cancer on Croatia’s belly”, US diplomat noted.

Galbraith confirmed that Tudjman was saying that only “up to 10 percent of Serbs can remain in Croatia”, and that Serbian Krajina region ought to be cleansed of Serbs and populated by the diaspora Croats. Emphasizing that his goal was a nationally “homogeneous”, i.e. an ethnically clean state, Tudjman was also openly advocating “moving the population” and dividing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Galbraith revealed.

He testified that right after the military offensive on Serbian Krajina began, on August 4, 1995, the mass “torching and pillaging” of the Serbian towns and villages also started. He had personally witnessed these crimes and knows these were not merely “isolated incidents”, as Croats refer to them, but organized, massive action, planned at the very top of Croat political and military leadership.

Galbraith Regrets Lying During Milosevic’s Trial

Mass ethnic cleansing of Serbian population from Krajina in Croatia — Operation Storm — remains the biggest single act of ethnic cleansing committed on the territory of former Yugoslavia, with over 300,000 Serbs being forced to flee, while more than 14,000 Serbian civilians were killed. It was, therefore, quite convenient that US State Department’s Madeleine Albright had miraculously discovered, at the very moment Croats were “purifying” their state, that Serbs have committed a “genocide” in Srebrenica a whole month earlier, so that the focus of the world public could be successfully and instantly taken off the genocidal Croat state.

During his Hague testimony on June 23, Galbraith expressed regret he had lied in the trial against former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, claiming that there was no ethnic cleansing during Operation Storm. He said that this was a “technical explanation”, because many Serbs left the town of Knin before the savage Croat troops entered (compared to hyenas by a senior British officer who, after his peacekeeping service in Bosnia, said he “would rather find Serbs under his command, as they could be counted on to fight to the last man [while] Croats were no more dependable or courageous than hyenas”).

Elsewhere, it was noted that the US State Department representative was present the entire time during Galbraith’s testimony, sitting behind the prosecutor, with the task to oversee American diplomat’s testimony and prevent him from touching upon the subjects which involve the US role in purging Croatia of Serbs.

Recommended: Tudjman & the Croatian Ustashe Nazi genocide of Krajina Serbs in 1991 (Part 1, Part 2), by Nathan Pearlstein, Joshua Rosenberg, Max Rosenthal and Shlomo Baum (4International)

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Kosovo the most worst country in balcan

26.6.2008 von CrniLabudovi.

World Bank: fight against corruption slackens in majority of SEE countries

26/06/2008

The fight against corruption has weakened in most of the Southeast European countries, according to a new World Bank report on governance published on Tuesday.

(Dnevnik, Europe.bg, Hotnews.ro - 25/06/08; DPA, IPS, World Bank - 24/06/0

According to the report, Bulgaria ranks as the most corrupt of the EU member states. [File]

Only five of the Southeast European (SEE) countries made progress in fighting corruption in 2007, the World Bank said in a new study released on Tuesday (June 24th). Kosovo and Bulgaria are among the other seven nations that deteriorated on this front, according to the Bank’s annual World Governance Indicators (WGI) report.

The study covers 212 countries and territories, drawing on 35 different data sources. The Bank measures governance in the surveyed countries on the basis of six criteria: voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption. For each of these indicators, countries earn scores of 0 to 100 or percentile ranks.

With a rank of 25.6 for 2007, Kosovo appears to be the worst performer among the SEE nations in fighting corruption and the country with the most significant deterioration since 2006, when it received a score of 34. Bulgaria’s performance in this category also worsened. Its 53.1 rank for last year was 3.7 points lower than the one it got in 2006, making it the worst performer in the fight against corruption among EU members.

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Greece’s scores of 44.9 and 65.7, respectively, were both 3.2 points lower than those the previous year. Cyprus got 74.9 for 2007, down from 77.7 in 2006. Croatia (58.9) and Serbia (46.4) slipped 0.8 and 0.2 points, respectively.

Meanwhile, Albania (36.7) improved by 7.6 points. Romania (55.6) also made significant progress, gaining 7.1 points in a year. Macedonia (50.7), Montenegro (44.4) and Turkey (59.4) earned higher scores for 2007.

On the voice and accountability indicator, all SEE countries, except for BiH, Kosovo, Romania and Turkey, improved their scores.

Political stability deteriorated most in Turkey, Serbia and BiH. Cyprus (64.4), Greece (63.0) and Bulgaria (61.1) fared best on this indicator. ….

Setimes

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