LJUBLJANA/ASTANA, Sept 23 (Hina) - Slovene President Milan Kucan signed a trade and business cooperation agreement with his Kazakhstan counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev while opening a business conference in the capital of Astana on
Monday.
LJUBLJANA/ASTANA, Sept 23 (Hina) - Slovene President Milan Kucan
signed a trade and business cooperation agreement with his
Kazakhstan counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev while opening a
business conference in the capital of Astana on Monday. #L#
Before opening the conference, Kucan spoke about Slovenia's
integration into Euro-Atlantic structures and the situation in
Southeast Europe at Astana's Eurasian University.
Kucan stated that it was the Muslim population that suffered the
most during the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, and that
the chief culprit for that was the aggressive Greater Serbia
policy.
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, as its chief
exponent, is today in custody of the UN war crimes tribunal at The
Hague, Kucan told students, but stated that the violence was not
ended by the 1995 Dayton peace accords but only after the collapse
of the Greater Serbia regime in 1999, following NATO's intervention
in Kosovo and Serbia.
The European policy shares the responsibility for the economic
revival of its south-east, as it shared the responsibility for the
actions of the Greater Serbia policy, Kucan said. He criticised the
European policy for having hesitated too long with the decision to
intervene, which he said was prompted only by the determination of
the United States.
On his way to Kazakhstan on Sunday, Kucan stopped in Moscow where he
met Russian President Vladimir Putin. The closed-door talks
addressed world relations, particularly hot spots.
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