Serbia

27.04.2004 A seminar of multiethnicity in the contemporary European Society will be organized on April 26-27, in the facilities of AKUD “Lola” in Belgrade. The seminar is organized by the Embassy of the United Kingdom, in cooperation with EU InfoPoint.

27.04.2004 Belgrade – Yesterday, the “Klio” Publishing Company presented the first issue of the “Limes Plus” magazine, the Serbian edition of the Italian geopolitical periodical.

22.04.2004 The trial for the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic continued yesterday at the Special Department of the Belgrade District Court, after the surprising appearance of the members of the Gendarme Service of the Ministry of Interior, former members of the Special Operations Unit. Thejy came to the Court wearing t-shirts with the emblems and insignia of the “Red Berets” (the popular name for the Special Operations Unit), which were disbanded during the “Sabre” Police Operation, because of the accusations that several of its commanding officers were involved in the assassination of Prime Minister Djindjic, but also in the murder of the former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic. The Special Operations Unit members were also involved in the two assassination attempts on the then opposition leader Vuk Draskovic. Goran Radosavljević, Commander of the Gendarmerie, in his statement for Radio B92, said that he will talk to the five Gendarmes involved in the incident in the District Court, and that he will have information about any disciplinary procedure in a couple of days.

21.04.2004 On April 19, in Kragujevac, European Movement consortium of NGOs from Smederevska Palanka and the Association of Agronomists “Domacin”, also from S. Palanka, signed the agreement for implementation of the training project “Growing Vegetables in Closed Space” (Ref. 02/SER01/14/001/08-14). The other side of the Contract is represented by EURECNA srl from Italy.

20.04.2004 Decontamination of Cape Arza, which was polluted by uranium material, is competed and the location is completely secure, from the aspect of danger to the environment and the health of people, said Boro Vucinic, Minister of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning of Montenegro at the press conference yesterday. Ana Misurovic, Direktor of the Centre for Eco-Toxicology Research, said that the process of decontamination, which was implemented in three phases, cost 450,000 Eur.

19.04.2004 On April 21-23, the Centre for Professional Media from Belgrade (website under construction), organizes specialized seminar for media professionals – press photojournalists – titled “Ethics in Press Photography.” The seminar will discuss the possibilities for manipulation with press photographs, the issue of protection of privacy and human rights, as well as the problems of copyright...

16.04.2004 Yesterday, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia issued a temporary restraint order on the implementation of the disputed Law on the Rights of Persons Indicted by the ICTY and Members of Their Families. The restraining order will stay in force until the Court completes the procedure on the initiative to test the constitutionality of the Law. The initiative was started by the Chamber of Barristers of Vojvodina, the City Assembly of Pozega and the Committee of Human Rights Lawyers.

15.04.2004 Youth Initiative from Belgrade, in cooperation with the Outreach Programme of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and eight NGOs from Serbia, starts a one-year project “The Hague – A Path to Face the Past”.

08.04.2004 Kuda.org Centre for New Media from Novi Sad, under its kuda.lounge programme, organizes a lecture by Inke Arns (Berlin, Germany). The lecture will be held in the facilities of kuda.org (Brace Mogin 2, Detelinara), on Friday, April 9, at 20:00 hours.

08.04.2004 The Centre for Regionalism from Novi Sad, called upon the NGOs in Serbia to join them in a campaign of Civic Disobedience and Tax Evasion, for as long as the Law on Assistance to The Hague Detainees and Their Families is in force.