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BELGRADE - The European Parliament (EP) has let Croatia instrumentalise it for pre-electoral purposes, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Friday in the wake of an EP resolution on Vojislav Seselj, an indictee of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

DUBROVNIK - Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said that he will not attend the summit of the prime ministers of and Central and Eastern European countries and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, adding that a visit to Belgrade would be ridiculous given the recent temporary release of indictee Vojislav Seselj from the detention unit of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslav

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic canceled a visit to Serbia, following the release of former leader of the Serbian Radical Party Vojislav Seselj from the ICTY.

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BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and head of the National Council for Cooperation with the ICTY Rasim Ljajic said Thursday that the European Parliament's resolution on leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj is a provocation by Croatian MEPs and serves as part of the campaign for Croatia's presidential election scheduled for December 28.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic qualified as offensive, disturbing and very disappointing for Serbia the resolution which the European Parliament (EP) adopted on Thursday against indictee before the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Vojislav Seselj, and added that it is not hard for him to voice this message to EP members although these words are no

BELGRADE - Vojislav Seselj, indictee before the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), stated on Thursday that he is very proud of the documents the Croatian parliament and the European Parliament adopted against him and his actions, and underscored that Serbian authorities will have to return him to the ICTY detention unit by

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta stated on Thursday that that the declaration of the Croatian parliament on the case of indictee and leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj constitutes fresh pressure on Serbia so as to induce the country to assume all the guilt for the civil war and sufferings in Croatia in the period 1991-1

STRASBOURG - The European Parliament passed on Thursday a resolution on leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj after a one-hour debate, calling on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to re-examine the existence of requirements for provisional release under new circumstances, and urging the Serbian authorities to distance themselves from his st

SARAJEVO - President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Theodor Meron said that too much unnecessary attention is being paid to the public outbursts of ICTY indictee Vojislav Seselj.

I think that the media focus on Seselj too much, giving him the publicity he does not deserve, Meron told the reporters during his visit to Sarajevo.

European parliament passes resolution on Šešelj

STRASBOURG -- The European parliament (EP) passed on Thursday a non-biding resolution on leader of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Šešelj after a one-hour debate.