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UN meeting on justice sparks Jordan boycott

Jordan‘s U.N. ambassador says he is boycotting a controversial meeting on international criminal justice organized by the president of the General Assembly because it won’t include victims of the Bosnian war and will likely attack the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Prince Zeid al Hussein said that while assembly president Vuk Jeremic, a former foreign minister of Serbia, is presiding over Wednesday’s assembly meeting, he and Liechtenstein’s U.N. ambassador will be hosting a press conference for two victims groups including the Mothers of Srebrenica.

Among the main speakers at the high-level assembly session is Serbia‘s President Tomislav Nikolic, an ultranationalist and disciple of Vojislav Seselj, a firebrand right-wing politician whose trial is under way at the Yugoslav tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Serb ultranationalists gather for jailed leader

About 2,000 ultranationalists have gathered to mark the 10th anniversary since their leader surrendered to a U.N. war crimes tribunal to face charges of using hate-laced speeches to incite Serb atrocities in the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.

Supporters of Vojislav Seselj‘s extremist Serbian Radical Party on Sunday demanded that the tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, release Seselj from custody after failing to hand down a verdict since 2003. Party official Nemanja Sarovic says Seselj “has been denied basic human rights.”

Seselj’s trial has been frequently held up, while he has been accused of contempt and witness intimidation. Prosecutors have asked for a 28-year sentence, but judges still have not delivered a verdict.

Seselj’s supporters and their paramilitary troops were notorious during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.

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