Pressing EU bid, Serbia issues arrest warrants for war crimes suspects News
Pressing EU bid, Serbia issues arrest warrants for war crimes suspects

[JURIST] Pushing for Serbian membership in the European Union by 2010, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus [BBC profile] said Monday that Serbia has issued arrest warrants for suspects indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website] and will extradite suspects it captures to the UN tribunal in The Hague. EU officials have urged closer co-operation with the Hague court as a condition for Serbian accession to the regional group. Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic [ICTY case backgrounder; indictment] and military commander Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; indictment] remain at large and are believed to be hiding in Serbia. AP has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

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