BELGRADE, Serbia-Serbia's leader said that if he becomes prime minister his government would never recognize an independent Kosovo or arrest war crimes fugitives sought by a U.N. court. Tomislav Nikolic said that if his Party forms the government he would tell the West, "Do not play games with Serbia any more."

voiceyour2cents, "It should also be noted that Croatia is the only country in the region that has cooperated, and continues to fully cooperate, with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague."

BELGRADE, Nikolic and the Radicals, who ruled together with late president Slobodan Milosevic during his Balkan war campaigns in the 1990s, are slated to win most votes in election, which pits them against pro-Western reformists led by President Boris Tadic. The vote is crucial for Serbia, as it awaits an international decision on the future status of its breakaway Kosovo province and struggles to move closer to the European Union and NATO after years of isolation under Milosevic. Nikolic sought to dismiss allegations by Tadic's reformists that a Radical government would push Serbia back into a pariah status, similar to the Milosevic era. He said his party was the victim of "stereotypes" created by political opponents. "We are for EU integration, but not at any price," Nikolic said.

voiceyour2cents, "I wish to point out only a few things in response Nazis. Serbian Belgrade was the only European capital that had concentration camps exclusively for Jews (Sajmiste and Banjica), see e.g. [Pecaric]. There are no holocaust memorial tablets in Belgrade, as is the case in the similar camps elsewhere in Europe. And It should be noted that, though NDH had its fascist ustasha order introduced from Italy and Germany, never in the history there was any fascist (or ustasha) party in Croatia.

BELGRADE, Mladic's arrest is the key condition for resumption of pre-entry talks with the European Union. Nikolic said Mladic and another top suspect, Bosnian Serb wartime leader, Radovan Karadzic, must never allow themselves to be caught and convicted. He added the death of Milosevic last year, while on a genocide trial in The Hague, was "good fortune" for Serbia. "If Milosevic had been convicted of genocide, Serbia would never have cleared itself of that," Nikolic said. "Those who led the country ... must not allow themselves to be convicted of genocide."

voiceyour2cents, "15,000 Croatians killed and forcibly displaced, "cleansed," some 220,000 Croats from about one-third of Croatian territory. More than 15,000 Croats were murdered in areas occupied by Serbs, and more than 4000 are still missing. Croatia has extradited or mediated in the extradition of 35 Croatian citizens or ethnic Croatians from Bosnia and Herzegovina to the ICTY, and has fulfilled all other requests (720 in all) put to it by the tribunal."