Kosovo PM shrugs off Serb charges, protests

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PODGORICA (AFP) — Kosovo's Prime Minister Agim Ceku, whom Belgrade accuses of war crimes, on Friday brushed aside the charges during an official visit to Serbia's former partner Montenegro. "My conscience is clear and I'm proud of my military career," Ceku said on the visit, which sparked protests by Montenegro's Serb minority.

"I say with full responsibility that I have never ordered any crime to be committed, that I have never seen or committed a crime, so there is no basis for me to be treated as a criminal," he told a press conference. Ceku, a former military commander in wars against Serbs in Croatia in 1991-1995 and Kosovo in 1998-1999, made the comments on his first official visit to Montenegro since it broke away from a union with Serbia. Belgrade, which accuses Ceku...