"Eronet has been awarded a licence to act as the country's third GSM mobile operator, alongside Sarajevo-based BH Telekom and Mobilna Srpske," EuropeMedia.net reports in an article posted at http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=14415 . The company, 49% owned by Hrvatski Telecom of Croatia, had been offering unlicensed service in Croat-controlled portions of Bosnia- Hercegovina; the license will make that service legal, as well as allow the company to expand its offerings.

One of the world's most-wanted war-crimes suspects continues to live openly in Serbia, according to a politician there. "Serb authorities were 'playing dumb' when they pretended not to know where the former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic was, alleged Nenad Canak," BBC reports in a story posted at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2612207.stm . " 'He is here and is appearing in seven locations,' Mr. Canak, the parliamentary speaker of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, said in a television interview." Mladic has been indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity over atrocities in Bosnia, including the siege of Sarajevo and mass murder in Srebrenica.

Former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic, who has admitted a role in Bosnia's war crimes and awaits sentencing, has been ordered to testify in the trial of another Bosnian Serb nationalist. Plavsic was told she must serve as witness in the trial of Milomir Stakic, accused of overseeing killing and mass torture of non-Serbs in the Prijedor area, Reuters reports. "Stakic was a powerful member of the so-called Crisis Staff in Prijedor, which masterminded the seizure of the area in April 1992 and subsequently set up notorious detention camps such as Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje, prosecutors say," Reuters notes. Stakic, charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, belonged to the same Serb ultra nationalist political party as Plavsic.

Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic says if Kosovars continue clamoring for independence, the Serbian government will demand a new "Dayton conference" to redraw borders throughout former Yugoslavia, he told the German publication Der Spiegel, the Tanjug news agency reports. The implication is that Serbia would demand territory from its neighbor in return for any concessions on Kosovo -- despite Serb officials' claims that they accept Bosnia's independence as a separate nation. Bosnian officials condemned the remarks, with a member of the country's collective presidency calling it a " direct attack on the sovereignty and integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina," Reuters notes in a story posted at http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/10/balkans.djindjic.reut/ .