Nationalist, anti-Western parties still enjoy support, and foreign governments have accused Serbia of dragging its feet in rounding up fugitive war criminals from the conflict in Bosnia.

Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu accused Serbia of trying to challenge Kosovo's statehood.

But Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa has accused Serbia of violating international law and opposes Belgrade taking part in meetings of the 108-nation movement.

Croatia has repeatedly accused Communist-ruled Serbia, Yugoslavia's largest republic, of backing the rebels.

He bluntly accused Serbia of stirring up a civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and said the Security Council should impose sanctions on Yugoslavia.

The Croatian leadership accused Serbia of planning to settle Serbs in the areas which were falling under JNA control and being vacated by the Croatian population.

One Bosnian cease-fire after another has been declared and then quickly broken, and the Muslims, who make up almost half the population, have accused Serbia of being the aggressor.

Tensions between the republics escalated to crisis beginning in 1988, with Slovenia accusing Serbia of pursuing Stalinism while Serbia accused Slovenia of betrayal.

Muslim and Croat leaders now in charge of governing Bosnia as a newly independent country accused Serbia and the Serbian-dominated federal army yesterday of fomenting civil war.

But no country was ever prosecuted for it until Bosnia accused Serbia of direct responsibility for the murder of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.