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  • Primakov: Milosevic for Peace, Not 'Greater Serbia'

    11/30/2004 7:43:10 AM PST · by Jane_N · 8 replies · 382+ views
    Reuters ^ | Tue Nov 30, 2004 | By Emma Thomasson
    THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic was a peacemaker who did not want to fight for a "Greater Serbia," while an anti-Serb West stoked the bloody collapse of Yugoslavia, Russia's Yevgeny Primakov said Tuesday. Primakov, former Russian foreign minister and prime minister, was testifying in defense of the former Yugoslav president, who is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkans in the 1990s. Primakov said the Western media had portrayed Serbs as "aggressors" and after Bill Clinton was elected U.S. president in 1992, Washington became increasingly anti-Serb. "It became ever more apparent that their course...