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Excerpt - BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's ultranationalist Radical Party claimed victory in national elections on Sunday, in a voter rejection of Western appeals for closer cooperation on the arrest of war criminals and on Kosovo. A projection of the result showed the opposition Radicals, strongest party in Serbia for years, taking 28 percent of the vote, a point higher than the 2003 national elections. "The Radical Party has won these elections," said Tomislav Nikolic, the Radical's candidate for prime minister in the absence of party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is on trial for war crimes at the U.N. tribunal in...

Ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader and reluctant war crimes indictee Vojislav Seselj, "holds the key to his life and health," said a spokesman for the United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at the Hague, where Seselj is in his fourth week of a hunger strike. Most of Seselj's demands have been met, Refik Hodzic on Wednesday told journalists. Tribunal president Fausto Pocar has called on Seselj to end his fast and to take an active part in the legal process which has been interrupted due to his health.

www.slobodan-milosevic.org - September 20, 2005 Written by: Andy Wilcoxson Vojislav Seselj concluded his testimony at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday. Mr. Nice briefly re-opened the cross-examination at the beginning of the hearing. He didn’t score any points, but he did give Seselj a chance to point out another flaw in videotape that the prosecution played last Thursday. Last Thursday Mr. Nice played videotape, filmed by prosecution witness Van Linden, of an alleged English-speaking “Serbian Chetnik” in Vukovar during the war. Today Dr. Seselj noted that this so-called “Chetnik” was wearing his wedding ring on his left hand, like...

The Serbian Radical Party has become the biggest force in Serbian politics following the country's general election. It is unlikely it will be able to form a coalition to govern the country, but already there are fears that the destructive nationalism witnessed in Serbia during the wars of the 1990s is returning. The BBC's Matthew Price spoke to the party's vice-president, Tomislav Nikolic, to find out if this fear is justified. Do you think the tag ultra-nationalist is a fair one for your party? We are a Serbian national party. Most of us are Orthodox Serbs, but we also include...

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague yesterday indicted the Serb ultranationalist, Vojislav Seselj, for alleged war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia. Mr Seselj, once a key ally of Slobodan Milosevic, said he knew the UN court had been preparing a warrant for his arrest, but said he planned to surrender voluntarily. "I will not let anyone arrest me," Mr Seselj, 48, told reporters in Belgrade. "I shall go when it pleases me." A prosecution spokeswoman, Florence Hartmann, said the indictment only became public yesterday and she could not explain how Mr Seselj had prior knowledge. He is charged...