In a court appearance, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic persisted in his demand to conduct his own defense in his trial.

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, appeared in court Friday in The Hague and refused to enter pleas to all 11 charges against him. He dismissed the tribunal as "a court of NATO."

The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused Friday to enter pleas on the 11 charges he faces at the United Nations war crimes tribunal.

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic refused to enter a plea before a UN war crimes court Friday, attacking the tribunal's independence and labelling it "a court of NATO".

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic refused to enter a plea Friday before the UN war crimes tribunal, which he dismissed as "a court of NATO".

THE HAGUE (AFP) - The UN's Yugoslav war crimes court Friday entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic to genocide and war crimes charges after he refused to file his own plea.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will either refuse to enter pleas or plead not guilty Friday at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to 11 charges including genocide and crimes against humanity, his legal advisers said.

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader arrested last month after 13 years on the run, is to be asked today to enter his pleas to charges of genocide and crimes against humanity

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is scheduled to enter pleas Friday at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to 11 charges that include genocide and crimes against humanity....

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, said that negative publicity has made a fair trial impossible for him and called for the dismissal of charges against him.