Ljajić: Clock is ticking for Hague arrests
Rasim Ljajić says searches are conducted all over the country in a bid to locate the remaining war crimes fugitives.
Saturday, 24.11.2007.
11:40
Rasim Ljajic says searches are conducted all over the country in a bid to locate the remaining war crimes fugitives. The president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal told the Saturday edition of the daily Vecernje Novosti that should one of the four remaining fugitives be captured by the end of December, Serbia will sign the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU. Ljajic: Clock is ticking for Hague arrests Belgrade has earlier initialed the arrangement, which is the first step toward becoming an EU member country. Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Stojan Zupljanin, and Goran Hadzic have all been indicted for war crimes by The Hague-based UN court, and are all still at large. But Ljajic says that beside the searches carried out by security forces, people have come forward with information after the government offered money awards. "Recently we carried out a serious search operation to capture Mladic is a Serbian town. Although it was not successful, it seems that the information we got had good basis," he said. "We are running against the clock and the fact that the Hague fugitives are hiding well. Carla Del Ponte will be in Belgrade on December 3, she will report to the UN Security Council on December 10, and that report will determine the fate of the SAA signing," Ljajic told the newspaper. He said that despite speculation that the agreement could be signed with the EU even if Mladic is not in jail by that time, such a scenario "is not our strategy". "But," Ljajic added, "if this were to happen, all the better for Serbia."
Ljajić: Clock is ticking for Hague arrests
Belgrade has earlier initialed the arrangement, which is the first step toward becoming an EU member country.Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić, Stojan Župljanin, and Goran Hadžić have all been indicted for war crimes by The Hague-based UN court, and are all still at large.
But Ljajić says that beside the searches carried out by security forces, people have come forward with information after the government offered money awards.
"Recently we carried out a serious search operation to capture Mladić is a Serbian town. Although it was not successful, it seems that the information we got had good basis," he said.
"We are running against the clock and the fact that the Hague fugitives are hiding well. Carla Del Ponte will be in Belgrade on December 3, she will report to the UN Security Council on December 10, and that report will determine the fate of the SAA signing," Ljajić told the newspaper.
He said that despite speculation that the agreement could be signed with the EU even if Mladić is not in jail by that time, such a scenario "is not our strategy".
"But," Ljajić added, "if this were to happen, all the better for Serbia."
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