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  presidential election in Serbia
Boris Tadic, the political heir to former Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who was assassinated on 12th March 2003, should enable his country to make progress along the road to drawing closer to the European Union.
Although Boris Tadic enjoyed the support of the entire democrat camp, heavy international pressure was necessary however to convince Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), to call for a vote in his favour.
Boris Tadic did however believe that this was not a matter on the agenda.
www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/serbie/presidentielles/resultats2.htm   (811 words)

  
  presidential election in Serbia
Boris Tadic, the political heir to former Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who was assassinated on 12th March 2003, should enable his country to make progress along the road to drawing closer to the European Union.
Although Boris Tadic enjoyed the support of the entire democrat camp, heavy international pressure was necessary however to convince Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), to call for a vote in his favour.
Boris Tadic did however believe that this was not a matter on the agenda.
robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/serbie/presidentielles/resultats2.htm   (811 words)

  
 Boris Tadic - President of Serbia
Boris Tadic, leader of the Democratic Party (DS), was elected president of Serbia on 27 June 2004, in a runoff election against Serbian Radical Party candidate Tomislav Nikolic.
Tadic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 15 January 1958.
Tadic advocated co-operation with the West, a peaceful solution to the Kosovo problem, the continuation of reforms, and EU accession in as short a time as possible.
www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/infoBios/setimes/resource_centre/bios/tadic_boris   (323 words)

  
 BORIS TADIC PRESIDENT OF SERBIA - SAM Magazine
Boris Tadic, leader of the Democratic Party (DS), was elected president of Serbia on 27 June 2004, in a runoff election against Serbian Radical Party candidate Tomislav Nikolic.
Tadic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 15 January 1958.
Tadic advocated co-operation with the West, a peaceful solution to the Kosovo problem, the continuation of reforms, and EU accession in as short a time as possible.
www.ceca-raznatovic.com /public_html/SAM/boristadic.htm   (343 words)

  
 Kennedy School News: Serbian President Boris Tadic at Kennedy School Forum
Tadic's hope for Serbia and its neighbors is for full integration into Europe's economic and political systems.
Tadic underscored the importance of the democratic process in finding a solution, but he also stressed that he believes unity remains the most important element in moving the region forward.
Tadic, a former defense minister of Serbia-Montenegro, also spoke of the importance of fighting organized crime and drug trafficking, as well as bringing general security.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /ksgnews/Features/news/091905_tadic.htm   (413 words)

  
 AP Interview: Tadic urges Mladic surrender - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Serbia's pro-Western President Boris Tadic appealed anew on Wednesday for top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic to surrender, saying the former general is holding back the Balkan republic's aspirations to integrate into Europe.
Tadic said that the top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic remains the prime obstacle to the Balkan republic's aspirations for a European future.
The soft-spoken Tadic was elected Serbia's president in 2004, and although his office is mostly ceremonial, for many he represents the face of Serbia abroad.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/03/ap_interview_tadic_urges_mladic_surrender   (387 words)

  
 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : Federal Ministry of Telecommunications
Boris Tadic was born on 15 January 1958.
Boris Tadic is the Director of the Centre for Development of Democracy and Political Skills.
In November 2000, Boris Tadic became Federal Minister of Telecommunications in new democratic Government of FR Yugoslavia.
www.fmt.gov.yu /minister.asp   (185 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Serbian president calls for economic development
Newly elected Serbian President Boris Tadic said a democratic Serbia and Montenegro could be a regional force for stability and economic growth, but warned that moves to further fragment the nation would work against those goals.
Tadic was introduced by Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood, who praised Tadic's strategy of "hurry up, slowly," saying that both an urgency for progress and the wisdom of patience are needed to navigate this important transition time in Serbia.
Tadic was a supporter of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who was assassinated in 2003, and has pledged to emulate Djindjic's support for a democratic, free-market Serbia with close ties to Europe, and to push for European Union membership as quickly as possible.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/09.22/13-serb.html   (733 words)

  
 WHO'S WHO: Boris Tadic
Democrat Boris Tadic, 46, is the newly elect President of Serbia and Montenegro.
Boris Tadic was born in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on January 15, 1958.
During the election campaign, Boris Tadic promised to take his country closer to the European Union, telling voters that this was only way to secure a better life for Serbs.
www.novinite.com /view_news.php?id=36360   (667 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Serbian president survives 'attack'- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Tadic was unhurt, and the Audi fled the scene in Belgrade's wealthy Dedinje district after the security car rammed it.
Tadic, who was elected Serbian president in June, also criticized the police for a slow start to the investigation, saying, "I still have not received a report'' about the incident.
Tadic's Democratic Party led the rebellion that toppled Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia, Serbia-Montenegro's predecessor, in October 2000, and extradited him for trial to The Hague a year later.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1101899970589_53?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory   (478 words)

  
 Serbian President Survives Assassination Attempt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In a statement, the presidential office said the official car carrying President Boris Tadic was attacked late Tuesday as it was driving on central Belgrade's Kneza Milosa Street.
Tadic was not injured in the incident, but his office added that one vehicle in the presidential convoy was heavily damaged.
Tadic's staff is awaiting the outcome of a police investigation.
quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/fj/2004-12-01-voa46.html   (455 words)

  
 Serbia at the Crossroads Again: Can the Country Firmly Embark on the Reform Path with President Boris Tadic? Special ...
Boris Tadic, the leader of the Democratic Party (DS), campaigned vigorously and consistently on a platform of far-reaching reforms and integration with Euro-Atlantic economic and security organizations.
Tadic's victory not only was celebrated widely in Serbia but also brought a sigh of relief from leaders in the region and from the international community.
Tadic was not among the officials he implicated in the alleged sale of the drugs previously seized by authorities.
www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr128.html   (10925 words)

  
 Serb president hopes for visit from pope - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
President Boris Tadic told reporters the possibility of a papal visit was raised during his 25-minute meeting with Benedict -- the first between a pope and a Serb president.
Tadic said his visit to Rome was a sign that relations between the two churches had improved.
Tadic said he and the pope also discussed the "huge problem" of the fate of Serbs in Kosovo, which has been an international protectorate since 1999 when a NATO air war forced former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to end a crackdown against rebel ethnic Albanians in the province.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/09/29/serb_president_hopes_for_visit_from_pope   (510 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Serbian president rejects Kosovo independence
But Tadic stressed that independence is "unacceptable", even while granting that the province is "on the verge of independence" and its Albanian population is in practice beyond Belgrade's control.
Tadic argued that "independence...is unacceptable for very specific reasons...[because it would lead to the] fragmentation of the region...[and] the establishment of a new Albanian independent state with its own army and foreign policy, which would in the long run be directed against Serbia.
Tadic did not mention, however, that the most striking proposal Djindjic made was to start talks on Kosovo's future status, an issue that most Serbian politicians prefer to put off on the assumption that time works to Belgrade's advantage.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=10684   (835 words)

  
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Boris Tadic has promised to bring Serbia closer to Nato and the EU Boris Tadic, a pro-western politician, has been sworn in as the new president of Serbia after an 18-month spell during which the post was left vacant.
Mr Tadic's victory over his nationalist rival was seen as an endorsement of his plans to bring Serbia closer to Europe.
In the election, Mr Tadic won 53.7% of the vote and his nearest rival, Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Renewal Party, polled 45%.
www.mfa.gov.yu /FDP/bbc110704_e.html   (388 words)

  
 Pro-Western Candidate Wins Serbian Presidential Poll | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 28.06.2004
With 53.5 percent of the vote, 46-year-old Boris Tadic, a pro-western liberal of the Democratic party of assassinated prime minister Zoran Djindjic, won the crucial presidential election in Serbia Sunday.
Tadic is also an ardent supporter of extraditing Serb war crimes suspects to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where Milosevic and others are standing trial on charges related to their roles in the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
Tadic's challenger, 52-year-old Nikolic (photo) is against Serbia's entry to the EU and it was feared that any victory for him could leave Serbia isolated on the international stage and scare off investors from the west.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,1248319,00.html   (676 words)

  
 Institute for War and Peace Reporting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The appointment of popular politician Boris Tadic to head the Democratic Party's campaign in Serbia's upcoming extraordinary parliamentary poll is likely to boost its prospects, but has not gone down well with one of the main factions within the party.
Tadic represents the latter and as such he may be vulnerable to attack from the former - which enjoys great media and financial power - especially if the DS does badly in the elections.
Tadic is a popular politician who is seen by the public as reform-minded and untouched by the wave of scandals which contributed to the recent break-up of DOS.
www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200312_471_1_eng.txt   (1014 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Tadic said his five-year mandate will be defined by a reform agenda that prepares the country for European Union membership.
Tadic says such cooperation is a must, even if many Serbs think it dishonorable to hand over generals to what they believe is a biased court.
In his concession statement, Nikolic said that Tadic had won the ballot because of the votes of "ethnic minorities." Some analysts say those remarks are a sample of Nikolic's election-campaign rhetoric, along with his "dream of a Greater Serbia" that convinced rival parties to join together in support of Tadic.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/6/996CDB99-7DB5-4FF2-89EF-9022090AC2B1.html   (973 words)

  
 ERPKIM Archive | Boris Tadic sworn in as new Serbian President, July 12, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Pro-Western reformist Boris Tadic was on Sunday sworn in as Serbian president, pledging to lead the country swiftly into European Union in a clear break from the Milosevic era.
Tadic's election victory on June 27 was greeted with sighs of relief in European capitals after he defeated ultra-nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic, who could have cast the country back into international isolation.
Tadic has also highlighted a solution of the problem of Kosovo as a top priority for his a five-year mandate, describing the issue as "a huge open wound" in Serbia's relationship with Europe.
www.kosovo.com /news/archive/2004/July_12/2.html   (1540 words)

  
 News Story | Serbianna.com
Boris Tadic took the post a year ago, during the rule of a pro-Western coalition, which was replaced during December elections by a nationalist coalition.
Tadic has advocated close ties with NATO and sought extradition of Serb war crimes suspects -including former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic -to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
Tadic is a staunch opponent of Kostunica's government, which depends on support from former president Slobodan Milosevic's loyalists.
www.serbianna.com /news/story/371.html   (268 words)

  
 Boris Tadic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Boris Tadić (born January 15, 1958) is the (Click link for more info and facts about President of Serbia) President of Serbia.
He was officially sworn in as the president at a ceremony in (Capital and largest city of Yugoslavia) Belgrade on July 11, 2004.
This incident was very significant to the general public because it evoked memories of a failed attempt of assassination of Zoran Djnindjic, when a car crashed into Djindjic's motorcade on an open road.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/boris_tadic.htm   (639 words)

  
 BLIC Online in English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Tadic agreed that the Draft of new constitution suggested by Serbian Government would be the basis for making the highest legal document.
Tadic promised Kostunica that DS would not work on fall of the Government and that DS would cooperate in the Parliament on passing legal projects of Kostunica's cabinet.
Judging by Kostunica and Tadic, it seems that new era of cooperation between DSS and DS is in sight.
www.blic.co.yu /arhiva/2004-06-18/E-Index.htm   (1167 words)

  
 Road Rage Was Behind Serb 'Assassination' Scare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A feared "assassination attempt" on Serbian President Boris Tadic was actually a case of road rage against the behavior of his flashing-light motor convoy in Belgrade traffic, Serbia's interior minister said on Wednesday.
The incident had been quickly assumed to be an attempt on the life of Tadic, or at least a warning, in a country whose Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was attacked on the road and weeks later assassinated by a sniper, in March 2003.
Tadic had called for a quick investigation on Wednesday after his office said a man in a car had sped after the official convoy and tried several times to ram his limousine.
www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/dec04/hed6823.shtml   (492 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
Boris Tadic of the Democratic Party won the second round of the Serbian presidential elections on 27 June with 53.61 percent of the vote against 45.03 percent for the Serbian Radical Party's (SRS) Tomislav Nikolic, with a turnout of 48.5 percent, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported, citing unofficial returns.
In central Serbia, Tadic won 52 percent to 46 percent, in Vojvodina 55 percent to 42 percent, and in Belgrade 59 percent to 39 percent.
He attributed Tadic's victory to votes from ethnic minorities, but it is not clear how he arrived at that conclusion.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/06/5-NOT/not-280604.asp?po=y   (997 words)

  
 Pro-Western Tadic wins Serbian elections - The Washington Times: World - June 28, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
BELGRADE —; Pro-Western reformer Boris Tadic won yesterday's presidential election in Serbia, defeating hard-line nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, according to a projection based on a partial count of the vote.
Tadic, 46, advanced from a field of 15 in a first round of voting two weeks ago, with Mr.
Tadic had since boosted his chances by securing the support of Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, a conservative whose own candidate finished fourth, and of the third-place finisher, business tycoon Bogoljub Karic.
www.washtimes.com /world/20040628-121255-2471r.htm   (513 words)

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