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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 07/04
Milosevic in the Hague: What it Means for Yugoslavia and the Region
July 6, 2001
Abstract
On 28 June 2001, St Vitus's Day - an anniversary with enormous resonance in Yugoslavia - Serbian government transferred former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague. By this bold political move, the government demonstrated in the clearest way its will to break with the past. With the timing driven by the international donors conference scheduled for 29 June, the transfer also confirmed the effectiveness of conditioning economic assistance to Yugoslavia on concrete political progress.
This ICG report describes the background to the transfer, how it was carried out, the internal political fallout, and what it all means for the future of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and the wider region.
