Sarajevo: Serbia broke Rome Agreement

Serbia has breached the Rome Agreement by raising indictments against members of the Bosnian Presidency, say Zeljko Komsic and Haris Silajdzic. Komsic and Silajdzic, the Croat and Bosniak Presidency members, say that the agreement signed in 1996 by Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia and Croatia states that “prior to the signatories raising indictments, it is necessary to seek the opinion of the Hague Tribunal, which Serbia has not done, thus contravening international law.“ Sarajevo: Serbia broke Rome Agreement They stressed that they would be seeking the opinion of the Hague Tribunal in this matter as “a breach of Bosnia-Hercegovina’s sovereignty is at stake.“ Komsic and Silajdzic have spoken to members of the former Bosnian Wartime Presidency, Tatjana Ljujic-Mijatovic, Ivo Komsic, Mira Lazovic and Ejup Ganic, who are the subject of the indictment raised by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution on charges of war crimes against Yugoslav People’s Army troops in Bosnia-Hercegovina. According to the members of the Bosnian Wartime Presidency, “there is concern among those who worked in the state institutions during the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina, but among Bosnian citizens too, on the issue of these warrants.“ Statements by certain Republic of Srpska officials that arrests will be carried out in that entity on behalf of Serbia undermine Bosnia-Hercegovina’s sovereignty, and Bosnia-Hercegovina needs to make its position clear on this, say the four suspects. They believe that the Bosnian authorities should insist that trials for war crimes committed on Bosnian soil should be tried there.

Sarajevo: Serbia broke Rome Agreement

They stressed that they would be seeking the opinion of the Hague Tribunal in this matter as “a breach of Bosnia-Hercegovina’s sovereignty is at stake.“

Komšić and Silajdžić have spoken to members of the former Bosnian Wartime Presidency, Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović, Ivo Komšić, Mira Lazović and Ejup Ganić, who are the subject of the indictment raised by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution on charges of war crimes against Yugoslav People’s Army troops in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

According to the members of the Bosnian Wartime Presidency, “there is concern among those who worked in the state institutions during the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina, but among Bosnian citizens too, on the issue of these warrants.“

Statements by certain Republic of Srpska officials that arrests will be carried out in that entity on behalf of Serbia undermine Bosnia-Hercegovina’s sovereignty, and Bosnia-Hercegovina needs to make its position clear on this, say the four suspects.

They believe that the Bosnian authorities should insist that trials for war crimes committed on Bosnian soil should be tried there.