John Gvozdenovic Kennedy
John Gvozdenovic Kennedy (born 18 June 1965), known as John Kennedy is a Conservative Party member and former lobbyist. He was an advisor to Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic in the early 1990s [1] According to the BBC, Kennnedy arranged a 1993 visit by the British MPs David Clark and John Reid to the Richmond Hotel in Geneva, "...where both met Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Dr David Owen and other players in the bid to end the war in Bosnia." The MPs were later censured for having failed to declare the trip in the Register of Member's Interests. According to the BBC, it was "...claimed that [Gvozdenovic] settled the bills. But Dr Clark says that he believed then that the United Nations had paid for the hotel and he still believed that now. The ministers said if they were mistaken, then they regretted this." [2]
Kennedy worked at Ian Greer Associates in the early 1990s and later set up his own PR firm John Kennedy Associates [3]
Notes
- ↑ 'Passing shot', Evening Standard, 30 November 1995
- ↑ BBC, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/news/06/0629/expenses.shtml Politics 97: 'Ministers Failed to Declare Expenses When in Opposition'
- ↑ Nick Cowen, 'Tory's Serb links spark challenge by Labour MP', Independent, 4 February 1996
