The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today dismissed a legal motion to acquit former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic of charges of genocide and other crimes against humanity after finding there is enough evidence for him to answer.

"Extremely serious" and persistent failures on the part of Serbia and Montenegro to cooperate with the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia are threatening to push the trials of key suspects beyond the target completion date of 2008, the court's President warned today in a letter to the Security Council.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced a Bosnian Serb man to 17 years in prison for the massacre of more than 200 men in August 1992.

The Appeals Chamber of the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today reinstated a charge of genocide against a Bosnian Serb former government minister facing trial for his role in the deaths of hundreds of Croats and Muslims and the forcible relocation of thousands of others during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.