Hague fugitives search reveals weapons cache
Rasim Ljajić says four raids were conducted last week in search of the Hague indictees still at large.
Sunday, 18.11.2007.
13:57
Rasim Ljajic says four raids were conducted last week in search of the Hague indictees still at large. One of them yielded a seizure of a sizeable amount of weapons, the labor minister, who is also the chair of the National Council for Hague Cooperation, told the daily Blic Sunday. Hague fugitives search reveals weapons cache Two of the searches were carried out in Vojvodina, one in central Serbia, and the fourth in Belgrade, he explained. Ljajic did not specify which of the four fugitives was the target of the raids, but revealed that one of the locations contained "enough weapons to arm a platoon." He also did not mention which forces or agencies were involved in the action. The minister told the newspaper the European Union will insist on the arrest of "one of the remaining indictees" before Serbia can sign the Stabilization and Association Agreement, initialed earlier this month. He added that by the time Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte leaves office, Serbia ought to finalize its cooperation with the UN war crimes court. Del Ponte, who is due in Belgrade on December 3, is completing her mandate at the end of 2007. Ljajic confirmed that Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic was in The Hague earlier this week, where he met with former President Milan Milutinovic and one of the wartime political leader of Bosnian Serbs, Momcilo Krajisnik. The topic of these meetings was an alleged agreement between former U.S. Balkan envoy Richard Holbrooke and Radovan Karadzic, that is said to have granted Karadzic impunity from prosecution for war crimes, including charges of genocide, in exchange for his disappearance from public life in the post war Bosnia. But the minister would not reveal any details of the conversations Vukcevic held with the two Hague detainees.
Hague fugitives search reveals weapons cache
Two of the searches were carried out in Vojvodina, one in central Serbia, and the fourth in Belgrade, he explained.Ljajić did not specify which of the four fugitives was the target of the raids, but revealed that one of the locations contained "enough weapons to arm a platoon."
He also did not mention which forces or agencies were involved in the action.
The minister told the newspaper the European Union will insist on the arrest of "one of the remaining indictees" before Serbia can sign the Stabilization and Association Agreement, initialed earlier this month.
He added that by the time Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte leaves office, Serbia ought to finalize its cooperation with the UN war crimes court.
Del Ponte, who is due in Belgrade on December 3, is completing her mandate at the end of 2007.
Ljajić confirmed that Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević was in The Hague earlier this week, where he met with former President Milan Milutinović and one of the wartime political leader of Bosnian Serbs, Momčilo Krajišnik.
The topic of these meetings was an alleged agreement between former U.S. Balkan envoy Richard Holbrooke and Radovan Karadžić, that is said to have granted Karadžić impunity from prosecution for war crimes, including charges of genocide, in exchange for his disappearance from public life in the post war Bosnia.
But the minister would not reveal any details of the conversations Vukčević held with the two Hague detainees.
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