SARAJEVO (AFP) - Serbian President Boris Tadic would not be welcome at the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslims, families of victims and Bosnia’s Islamic community said yesterday. “When Tadic organizes a press conference in Belgrade to explain (to his) citizens that people from Serbia-Montenegro crossed into Bosnia and took part in genocide, then he would be welcome,” Munira Subasic, the head of the Srebrenica Mothers Association, told AFP.

DUBAI (AFP) - An armed group in Iraq has kidnapped a Turkish contractor demanding that Ankara halt its support for US forces in the country within three days, the Al-Jazeera satellite channel said yesterday. The Doha-based television channel broadcast a videotape showing the hostage, identified as Ali Abdullah Ali, sitting alone and speaking, although his voice could not be heard.

Romania’s centrist government survived its first no-confidence vote yesterday over its proposals for sweeping property restitution and justice reforms. Parliament voted 265-186 in support of the government and its legislative proposals. The vote also means Parliament has passed a set of bills proposed by the government to return property confiscated by the communist regime and reform the country’s inefficient justice system. (AP)

A military fighter plane crashed yesterday while on a training mission in the southeastern Turkish province of Malatya, the military said. The F-4 plane crashed in an uninhabited area and its two pilots escaped unhurt after ejecting with parachutes, the military said. It said a technical fault caused the crash but gave no further details. (AP)

A Romanian court ordered yesterday that striking railway employees must keep one-third of the trains running normally during their protest. The workers began a strike two weeks ago to demand higher wages and better working conditions. Romanian law requires workers to provide a third of activity during strikes. (AP)

Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi yesterday took the first salute from a new “ceremonial guard” of ex-guerrillas from the force he says will soon make up the army of an independent state. Dressed in black with yellow braid and belts, the 80-strong guard saluted stiffly at the headquarters of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), the civil emergency force formed in 1999 from the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). “We see the KPC as the nucleus of the army of the state of Kosovo,” Kosumi said. (Reuters)