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[zan]

SPARKS flew in court yesterday as a former business partner of President Tassos Papadopoulos insisted their law firm had no part in Yugoslav sanctions-busting in the 1990s.

It was the second hearing in a libel case brought by Papadopoulos against the Financial Times for reporting in 2002 that his law firm had close ties with companies suspected of siphoning money abroad.

Papadopoulos himself, his law firm Tassos Papadopoulos & Co, as well as the firm’s partner Nicos Papaesftathiou are suing the Financial Times for £250,000.

According to a report by Morten Torkildsen, an investigator at the United Nations war crimes prosecutor’s office, the Popular Bank of Cyprus allowed a group of Yugoslav-controlled front companies to operate in defiance of UN sanctions.

The report named eight companies in Cyprus which supplied Milosevic’s government with fuel, raw materials, spare parts and weapons to pursue wars in Bosnia in 1992-1996 and in Kosovo in 1998-1999.

All eight ventures were registered on the island as offshore companies by the Tassos Papadopoulos law firm. The same firm acted as legal advisors for the Popular Bank and for Beogradska COBU, the Nicosia-based offshore branch of Beogradska Banka, a state-owned Yugoslav bank.
According to Yugoslav Central Bank officials, as much as $4 billion in foreign currency is thought to have been transferred to Cyprus between 1992 – the year the UN embargo came into force – and 1994. The funds were mainly deposited in the Popular Bank and its Greek subsidiary, the European Popular Bank.
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[Sotos]

So whats the problem of helping our Serbian brothers against the pro-Turk Americans?

[cypezokyli]

So whats the problem of helping our Serbian brothers against the pro-Turk Americans?

problem is :

1. we deny doing that. actually WE (me and you) dont. tpap does. i dont deny that i participated or even organised demonstrations against the american intervention in kosovo. now i know that i only received biased information and i was too young to search for the argument of the other side. there is a huge difference between denying of doing something (helping the serbs) and supporting that your decision of doing that was a right one.
tpap , unlike you is chooseing the first way... and i dont want to make predictions as to who will win this case...

2. milosevic and the rest of the gang are considered war criminals nowadays - we also share that position.

[Get Real!]

2. milosevic and the rest of the gang are considered war criminals nowadays - we also share that position.

Is that a fact? Tell us all about it please...

[karma]

So whats the problem of helping our Serbian brothers against the pro-Turk Americans?

no problem at all...coz those who were massacred for Bosnian Muslims..so who cares.....

[karma]

So whats the problem of helping our Serbian brothers against the pro-Turk Americans?

correcting

no problem at all...coz those who were massacred were Bosnian Muslims..
so who cares....

[karma]

2. milosevic and the rest of the gang are considered war criminals nowadays - we also share that position.

Is that a fact? Tell us all about it please...

what a question

do u live on some other planet??
Milosevic was a bastard..I hope he is in hell....

[cypezokyli]

2. milosevic and the rest of the gang are considered war criminals nowadays - we also share that position.

Is that a fact? Tell us all about it please...

because we, as a state, endorse the decisions of the UN on war crimes. or do you believe that we dont ?

milocevic might have died too early and avoided trial (if thats what you are pointing at ) , but a number of his former allies - especially bosnian serbs (as well as croats etc) have been already been convicted. if you want to use a legalistic argument (typical for cypriots ) , you can say that milocevic was never convicted.

fact it though that nowadays no european leader can afford to publicly support the milosevic regime (eccept ofcource KKE and LAOS of greece ) . neither do we. our attitudes in the mid-90s dont really count anymore. we have to act as europeans from now on. and we do

[Get Real!]

2. milosevic and the rest of the gang are considered war criminals nowadays - we also share that position.

Is that a fact? Tell us all about it please...

because we, as a state, endorse the decisions of the UN on war crimes. or do you believe that we dont ?

milocevic might have died too early and avoided trial (if thats what you are pointing at ) , but a number of his former allies - especially bosnian serbs (as well as croats etc) have been already been convicted. if you want to use a legalistic argument (typical for cypriots ) , you can say that milocevic was never convicted.

fact it though that nowadays no european leader can afford to publicly support the milosevic regime (eccept ofcource KKE and LAOS of greece ) . neither do we. our attitudes in the mid-90s dont really count anymore. we have to act as europeans from now on. and we do

The problem is in the structure of your sentence which unfortunately can also imply that the RoC, or some members of it, share the alleged “war criminal” position of Milosevic.

[Get Real!]

2. milosevic and the rest of the gang are considered war criminals nowadays - we also share that position.

Is that a fact? Tell us all about it please...

what a question

do u live on some other planet??
Milosevic was a bastard..I hope he is in hell....

Karma, I'll bet that if I were to apply pressure you wouldn't be able to put a convincing paragraph together for OR against Milosevic.

Therefore, please don't tell me that I "live on some other planet" and thus imply that I'm an alien to an area (politics) that is clearly NOT your strong point. Thank you.