Former CIA Deputy Chief of the Balkan Task Force Steven Meyer spoke for a Belgrade daily on the subjects of WikiLeaks, and the country’s integrations.
According to Belgrade’s Blic newspaper, Meyer said he did not expect “anything interesting†when the U.S. diplomatic cables concerning Ratko Mladić and the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić surface on the whistleblowing website.
Posts Tagged ‘Prime Minister Zoran’
Ex-CIA official questions Serbia’s EU bid
December 2nd, 2010 |
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Daily: Disbanded unit’s mutiny probed
October 7th, 2010 |
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The Special Prosecution in Belgrade is conducting preliminary proceedings about the 2001 mutiny of the Unit for Special Operations (JSO).
The Serbian State Security (DB) unit was disbanded after the 2003 murder of Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić, and now Belgrade daily Politika writes that the prosecution’s investigation could be connected to the political background of the assassination.
ÄinÄ‘ić killer transferred to maximum-security prison
August 30th, 2010 |
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Former JSO unit member Zvezdan Jovanović has been transferred from the Belgrade District Prison to the Zabela prison in eastern Serbia. Jovanović was found guilty of shooting and killing Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić on March 12, 2003, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Zemun Clan member in custody
June 25th, 2010 |
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A Zagreb court has placed Sretko Kalinić in month-long custody, investigating judge KreÅ imir DevÄić told Beta news agency.
Kalinić is one of the Zemun Clan crime group members who was tried in absentia in Serbia and convicted convicted for the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić.
Äukanović slams ex-associate
March 19th, 2010 |
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Milo Äukanović said that he recognized the intentions of people, including late journalist Ivo Pukanić, for “drawing a target” on his head. “From the start I recognized the ambitions of Messrs (ex-associate Ratko) Knežević and Pukanić and many others to draw a target on my head in the same way they drew one on the head of late Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić,” Äukanović told Croatian media.
Tribute paid at ÄinÄ‘ić grave
March 12th, 2010 |
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Family members and state officials paid their respects to late Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić laying wreaths and flowers at his grave in Belgrade. ÄinÄ‘ić’s widow Ružica and his son Luka arrived to the cemetery with President Boris Tadić, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković, Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Äelić, and Defense Minister Dragan Å utanovac.
French FM holds meetings in Belgrade
March 1st, 2010 |
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French FM Bernard Kouchner is in Belgrade, where he has met with President Boris Tadić, and also with Deputy PM Božidar Äelić, and FM Vuk Jeremić. Ahead of the meetings today, he visited the grave of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić, assassinated in 2003.
“Patriarch’s death reveals people want modest leadershipâ€
November 23rd, 2009 |
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The funeral of Patriarch Pavle showed that the people want their leaders to show humility and modesty in these tough times, a B92 TV talk show heard. Political science professor and historian Slobodan B. Marković said that the funeral of the late head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) last week was “one of the four largest in the past 100 years in Serbia”, counting the funerals of King Aleksandar, Yugoslav President Josip Broz and assassinated Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić.
“State gave ÄinÄ‘ić killer apartment”
August 13th, 2009 |
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The man who fired the bullet that killed Prime Minister Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić was three years prior to the assassination given an apartment by the state. From 1997 until 2007, 2,166 state-owned apartments were “given out”, one of them – a 60 sq meter two-bedroom place – to Zvezdan Jovanović.