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Serbia president pledges arrest of war crimes fugitive Mladic within year

July 6, 2007 06:37:00 PM

Serbia will arrest wanted war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic and transfer him to the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague within the year, President Boris Tadic ...

June 18, 2007 08:00:00 PM

Senior UN officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday urged countries to cooperate in the capture of numerous fugitives who remain at...

June 6, 2007 02:51:00 PM

Carla Del Ponte , top prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) praised last week's arrest and extradition of war crimes suspect Zdravko Tolimir Wednesday, but...

May 31, 2007 02:55:00 PM

Zdravko Tolimir , a former Bosnian Serb general and a UN-indicted war crimes suspect, has been arrested, according to Thursday media reports. Tolimir, a close aide to war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic [ICTY...

October 21, 2006 03:00:00 PM

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) prosecutor Carla del Ponte said Saturday that she believes that Bosnian war fugitive Ratko Mladic "is in Serbia, in...

August 10, 2006 09:54:00 AM

Efraim Zuroff, a director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center , urged Serbia on Wednesday to request the extradition of Ivo Rojnica and Milivoj Asner , two Croatian-born men accused of committing atrocities against Jews, Serbs...

July 12, 2006 10:21:00 AM

Serbian President Boris Tadic said Tuesday on the 11th anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8000 Muslim men and boys that all war criminals should be punished, regardless...

June 18, 2006 10:57:00 AM

A Serbian government official has told AP that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic was hiding in Serbia until last year, but his current location remains unknown. Rasim Ljajic , Serbia's Minister of...

June 4, 2006 10:08:00 AM

The Parliament of Montenegro issued a declaration of independence Saturday on the basis of the May 21 referendum in which...

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Milosevic trial formally closed

March 14, 2006 06:49:00 AM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia formally closed its war crimes case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic Tuesday, three days after he was found dead in his cell over...

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty extended indefinitely

On May 11, 1995, over 170 signatory nations agreed to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) indefinitely. The NPT is an agreement signed by 189 countries to control the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear technology based on the principles of disarmament, non-proliferation, and the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. The treaty was opened for signature in 1968 with a provision for review conferences every five years. During the 1995 review conference in New York City, member countries decided to keep the treaty open indefinitely. Learn more about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty from the United Nations.

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