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Sat 01 Jan 2010Military 'threat' to Serbia prompts diplomatic efforts
CROATIAN PRIME minister Jadranka Kosor has sought to ease tensions with Serbia, after her president said he would send troops into neighbouring Bosnia if the leader of its Serb region carried out a threat to hold a referendum on independence.
The spat raised temperatures around the region, at a time when Croatia and Serbia are at odds over mutual lawsuits filed in the International Court of Justice, and efforts to deepen co-operation between Bosnia’s Republika Srpska and Muslim-Croat Federation have hit deadlock.
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