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Serbia, Bosnia seek to aid ties after tensions Ukraine: Police,

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — and Croat members of Bos- ongoing issues include de- convicted of genocide last protesters clash
over Saakashvili
Serbian and Bosnian lead- nia’s multi-ethnic presiden- fining the border between month by the U.N. court
ers said Wednesday they cy that the talks “have not Serbia and Bosnia, more over Bosnian war atrocities By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
want to resolve problems been simple or easy.” But than two decades after the and sentenced to life in Associated Press
left over from their 1990s Vucic added: “We are not 1992-95 war which followed prison, but many Serbs still MOSCOW (AP) — Support-
conflict after tensions here to love or hug each the breakup of the former consider him a hero. Sepa- ers of Ukraine’s top oppo-
soared over the convic- other; we are here to solve Yugoslavia and left 100,000 rately, Croatia and Bosnian sition politician clashed
tion of former Bosnian Serb problems.” Dragan Covic, dead and millions home- Croats have been mourn- Wednesday with police
military chief Ratko Mladic head of the Bosnian presi- less. Illustrating postwar di- ing the death of Slobodan who tried to arrest him for
and the death of a Croat dency, said the meeting visions, posters supporting Praljak, who died after tak- a second time at a tent
ex-general at the Yugoslav in Belgrade has “predomi- ex-Bosnian Serb army com- ing what he said was poi- camp outside the parlia-
war crimes tribunal. nantly focused on how to mander Mladic surfaced son moments after judges ment building in Kiev.
Serbian President Aleksan- boost bilateral coopera- on several locations in Bel- at The Hague court con- Ukrainian authorities ac-
dar Vucic said after meet- tion and gradually remove grade ahead of Wednes- firmed his 20-year-sentence cuse Mikheil Saakashvili,
ing with the Bosniak, Serb problems.” Officials said day’s meeting. Mladic was for war crimes in Bosnia.q
Georgia’s former president
and now an anti-corrup-
Doubts grow over UK’s preparation for Brexit tion crusader in Ukraine,
of colluding with Ukrainian
businessmen to topple
By DANICA KIRKA President Petro Poroshen-
LORNE COOK ko.
Associated Press Saakashvili said he will not
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. turn himself in, though pros-
government acknowl- ecutors were welcome to
edged Wednesday that it see him at the camp out-
has made no detailed as- side the Supreme Rada
sessment of the economic where about 100 support-
impact of leaving the Eu- ers gathered.
ropean Union, as its lack of “I’m ready to host their
preparation for a momen- investigators here at the
tous break became clear. camp,” he said. “From the
David Davis, the official very beginning they re-
shepherding Britain’s de- fused to register my party,
parture from the 28-na- then stripped me of my citi-
tion bloc, said the nation zenship, then lied. Shame
should be prepared for a on you.”
profound shift in the way It was the police’s second
the economy operates on unsuccessful attempt to ar-
a scale similar to that of the rest Saakashvili in as many
2008 financial crisis. days. On Tuesday, police
He told a parliamentary detained him at his home,
committee that since Brit- but he escaped with help
ain must prepare for a from crowds who had
“paradigm change,” in the gathered to protest.
economy, any assessment European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, right, walks behind British Prime Minister Protester Igor Ognyov, from
in the automotive, aero- Theresa May prior to addressing a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday, the eastern city of Sumy,
space financial services or Dec. 4, 2017 told The Associated Press
other sectors would fail to (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) that the police stormed
be “informative.” hadn’t at that point — and cussion of the “end state the U.K. — including North- the camp before dawn on
The House of Commons’ still hasn’t — undertaken position,” the status the U.K. ern Ireland — leaves the EU. Wednesday.
Brexit committee’s chair, the assessment?” Benn would aim to have once it But the agreement was “They burst into the tent
Hilary Benn, described the asked. leaves the EU. In testimony scuttled at the last min- and started beating ev-
decision as “rather strange” Davis told the committee before the House of Com- ute when the Democratic eryone with their hands
given the historic decisions he didn’t need a formal im- mons Treasury Committee, Unionist Party, which props and batons,” said Ogny-
at hand and since authori- pact assessment. Hammond said it was too up May’s minority govern- ov, whose head was ban-
ties wish to start renegotiat- “I’m not a fan of economic soon to have such talks. ment, warned it wouldn’t daged and his face cov-
ing Britain’s trade relations models because they have He said that would hap- support a deal it saw as ered with blood.
with the rest of Europe with- all proven wrong,” Davis pen once the EU accepts undermining Northern Ire- Two protesters and 11
in weeks. said. “When you have a to move the Brexit talks on land’s place in the United officers were injured in
“You have said there are paradigm change — as from the divorce issues to Kingdom. Wednesday’s scuffles in
no impact assessments,” happened in 2008 with the question of future rela- Foreign Secretary Boris Kiev, police said.
Benn said. “You were hop- the financial crisis — all the tions, like trade. Johnson said that a solution The efforts to detain Saa-
ing that, at the October models were wrong.” “We are not yet at that to the issue “can only be kashvili have raised fears
(European) Council, the But as the day wore on, the stage and it would have discovered in the context that Ukraine could be fac-
door would be open to government’s last minute- been premature to have of discussions on the end ing its most acute political
phase two of the negotia- planning became more that discussion before we state of the U.K.’s relations crisis since the 2014 revo-
tions, where the question evident. reach that stage,” he said. with the rest of the EU.” lution. Poroshenko named
would be asked ‘What Treasury chief Philip Ham- Britain and the EU on Mon- “We are going to take back Saakashvili as governor of
does the U.K. government mond revealed that Prime day came close to agree- control of our borders, of the Odessa region in 2015,
want?’ Minister Theresa May’s clos- ing on key divorce terms, our laws and of U.K. cash but he stepped down the
“Are you actually telling est advisers in her Cabinet including how to maintain contributions and that’s the following year after falling
us that the government had not yet had a full dis- an open Irish border after way forward,” he added.q out with the president.q