"Mladić is question of all questions"

Labor Minister Rasim Ljajic believes that Serbia will sooner arrest Ratko Mladic than Holland will alter its position. “Not because we’re near or far from an arrest, but because I don’t expect Holland to change its position, when it hasn’t done so up to now,” Ljajic told ekonomist magazine. He added that Mladic’s arrest was the “question of all questions.” "Mladic is question of all questions" “It’s clear that we’ve done everything—when 44 fugitives have been handed over, when 26 EU member-states, [Hague Chief] Prosecutor Serge Brammertz and the court president are sure of our cooperation with the Hague,” said the president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. “I won’t promise anything, but if Mladic is in Serbia, I cannot believe that all this work can go unrewarded, and I’m a witness to how many people are engaged in cracking this problem,” said Ljajic. “If Mladic is in Serbia, he cannot hide forever and what’s being down has to pay off eventually,” said the president. He said that Holland would not drop its demands for Mladic’s extradition, but nor would it block further European integration. Asked whether the authorities could have arrested and extradited him earlier on, Ljajic replied: “When we could have, we didn’t dare, and now that we want to, we can’t.” “It is obvious that certain people in power up until June 1, 2002, knew where Mladic was hiding and in which military facilities,” said the president of the National Council. Rasim Ljajic (FoNet, archive)

"Mladić is question of all questions"

“It’s clear that we’ve done everything—when 44 fugitives have been handed over, when 26 EU member-states, [Hague Chief] Prosecutor Serge Brammertz and the court president are sure of our cooperation with the Hague,” said the president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.

“I won’t promise anything, but if Mladić is in Serbia, I cannot believe that all this work can go unrewarded, and I’m a witness to how many people are engaged in cracking this problem,” said Ljajić.

“If Mladić is in Serbia, he cannot hide forever and what’s being down has to pay off eventually,” said the president.

He said that Holland would not drop its demands for Mladić’s extradition, but nor would it block further European integration.

Asked whether the authorities could have arrested and extradited him earlier on, Ljajić replied: “When we could have, we didn’t dare, and now that we want to, we can’t.”

“It is obvious that certain people in power up until June 1, 2002, knew where Mladić was hiding and in which military facilities,” said the president of the National Council.