The French and Dutch rejections of th

The French and Dutch rejections of the constitution are being blamed in part on a reaction against the admission to the EU of 10 new nations last year. However, the UK is determined not to accept the blame for declaring the treaty dead.The looming clash over the future of the constitution came as the consequences of the votes in the Netherlands and France became clear. A pause is very realistic." Mr Blair already has the backing of the Czech government and is courting the Danish premier, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Meanwhile the Irish premier, Bertie Ahern, did not refer directly to the ratification process in a speech.Mr Blair believes countries that face referendums on the constitution know they could not hope to persuade voters to back a treaty which could not, as things stand, come into effect. That raises the prospect of a clash at an EU summit in Brussels in two weeks.Yesterday, a spokeswoman for the European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, said he had not

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"formed his view" on the idea of a delay. In a statement Mr Barroso added only that all countries "must be able to express themselves on the project" rather than calling for the ratification process to continue.One source argued: "We have to be realistic, we have to recognise realities.

The same survey suggested that two-thirds of the public believedMr Karadzic and General Mladic were heroes.But analysts say the airing of the video and the quick action of the authorities might be a prelude to the arrest of the two, which is the precondition for Serbia to start talks with the EU on an association agreement, due to open in October. Stephen Farthing, one of the Royal Academicians who curated the show, said it was popular partly because visitors could buy the works: "There's more work in this show that is affordable than probably any previous show because of the preponderance of prints."The American Chuck Close and the German Andreas Gursky are among the international stars taking part for the first time. Conservatives and nationalists have convinced the public that the crime is the invention of anti-Serb forces abroad with a recent survey showing that only half the population believe it happened. The killers in the video are wearing the black uniforms of the Scorpions.The Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime in Europe since the end of the Second World War, remains a divisive subject for Serbs. The young men appeared to have been severely beaten and had their hands tied behind their backs.

The unit committed war crimes against non-Serb civilians in Bosnia, Croatia and in Kosovo.Short clips of the video were shown on Serbian television on Wednesday night. It was taken by a man participating in the murders at Trnovo, 18 miles south of Sarajevo in Serb-held territory, after the fall of the Bosnian "safe haven" of Srebrenica. At one point in the footage, he claims that the battery of his camera is low. The man is told by one of the executioners to go on as long as he can.The video begins with a Serbian Orthodox priest blessing paramilitaries before they go into battle. It ends with what looks like the same paramilitaries shooting the six civilian prisoners in the back, with machine guns. It showed the execution of six Bosnian Muslim youths by members of the notorious paramilitary "Scorpions" unit of Mr Milosevic's secret police. "I'm particularly grateful for the reaction on the footage." But she added: "In a few hours they were able to identify the perpetrators.

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