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C R I S I S W E B N E W S Wednesday, June 7, 2000 ICG SERBIA ------------------------- ICG's report on Serbia's Grain Trade: Milosevic's Hidden Cash Crop, first released on 2 May, is now available in a revised version dated 5 June 2000. --> See http://www.crisisweb.org for the full report The Serbian opposition - often derided as hopelessly weak and divided - is capable of winning elections due later this year, but only if the international community provides more effective and better targeted support for local opposition figures willing to bury their differences and adopt a common electoral list and policy platform. A new ICG report,entitled Serbia's Embattled Opposition (30 May 2000), examines the present state of the opposition and prospects for an opposition victory at elections due later this year. --> See http://www.crisisweb.org for the full report ----------------- ICG KOSOVO ----------------- As the first anniversary of the end of the Kosovo war approaches, the divided city of Mitrovica has emerged as the linchpin of Kosovo's future status. If the international community cannot re-establish Mitrovica as a single city, Belgrade will be emboldened to continue its pressure to partition Kosovo into ethnic Serbian and Albanian regions and efforts to preserve a united Kosovo will fail. A new ICG report, entitled Kosovo's Linchpin: Overcoming Division in Mitrovica (31 May 2000), reviews the stand-off between Kosovo Serbs and Albanians in this northern Kosovo city and identifies a package of political, economic and military carrots and sticks that UNMIK and KFOR can implement to help break Belgrade's control over Mitrovica. --> See http://www.crisisweb.org for the full report ----------------- ICG INDONESIA ----------------- In its first report on Indonesia since the establishment of a field presence there in March 2000, ICG concludes that while impressive political progress has been made, the country's crisis is far from over. The report, entitled Indonesia's Crisis: Chronic But Not Acute (31 May 2000), underscores the extraordinary political transition Indonesia has experienced during the last two years - from a society long ruled by a military-backed authoritarian leader to one in which an elected government was installed through an open and largely democratic process. The report goes on to describe the serious political, regional, communal, legal and economic problems and challenges the country still faces, and identifies in outline appropriate responses to them by the international community. --> See http://www.crisisweb.org for the full report ----------------- ICG BOSNIA ----------------- The return of refugees to areas where they are an ethnic minority is crucial if Bosnia is to be re-established as a successful multiethnic society and the effects of wartime ethnic cleansing are to be reversed. The good news is that at last, after four and a half years, such returns are sharply increasing. The bad news is that international aid to support returnees is just not coming through: only 1 in 10 spontaneous returnees look like receiving home reconstruction help this year, and this will certainly discourage others coming back. In a new report, entitled Bosnia's Refugee Logjam Breaks: Is the International Community Ready? (31 May 2000), the International Crisis Group (ICG) assesses the extent and character of this year's refugee returns region by region. The report describes the scale of the present funding shortfall and calls on the European Union, the United States and other donors to step up support for refugee return this year. It also urges the Bosnian government to implement long-overdue economic and regulatory reforms to make it easier for returning refugees to support themselves economically. And it contains a number of recommendations to SFOR and NATO about how to improve protection for minority returnees. --> See http://www.crisisweb.org for the full report <<...>> <<...>> <<...>> ------------------------------------- CrisisWeb - http://www.crisisweb.org ------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with "unsubscribe crisisweb <your email address>" to [email protected] ------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold