Croatia "can hardly win case against Serbia"
Rasim Ljajić says he "does not believe in the possibility of Croatia winning the genocide case against Serbia before the ICJ in The Hague."
Monday, 25.11.2013.
12:11
BELGRADE Rasim Ljajic says he "does not believe in the possibility of Croatia winning the genocide case against Serbia before the ICJ in The Hague." "I suppose that the trial will probably take place, but I still leave some room for an agreement, but the chances are very small. However, I absolutely do not believe in the possibility of Croatia winning the case", said this cabinet minister and president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. Croatia "can hardly win case against Serbia" "We hired the best (legal) team because it is important for us that we come out of this dispute at least as the party which did not lose, and then build our relations with Croatia on these new foundations", said Ljajic. He added that Serbia would like to have an out-of-court settlement so as to ease tensions between the states, and noted that Serbia filed the counter-suit 10 years after Croatia lodged its genocide lawsuit, expecting that it would be dropped. “Unfortunately, there may have been a willingness among Croatia's top officials to drop the lawsuit, but not the courage due to public pressure,” Ljajic said. He said that Croatia insisted on resolving the issue of missing persons as a prerequisite for dropping the lawsuits, for which Serbia was ready since, as he put it, that is not a political, but rather humanitarian issue. “Suddenly, we saw the news that Croatia was strengthening its legal team, which was a clear signal that at this moment they do not have an adequate political climate for dropping the lawsuits," Ljajic said. Croatia filed a genocide lawsuit against Serbia in 1999, related to the war of the first half of that decade, and the ICJ decided in 2008 that it had the jurisdiction to hear the case. On January 4, 2009, Serbia filed a countersuit, charging Croatia with genocidal actions and the ethnic cleansing of over 400,000 Serbs from Croatia, also during the 1990s war. The suit against Croatia also deals with the crimes which the Ustasha movement of the fascist Independent State of Croatia (NDH) WW2 entity committed against Serbs. (Beta, file) RTS Tanjug
Croatia "can hardly win case against Serbia"
"We hired the best (legal) team because it is important for us that we come out of this dispute at least as the party which did not lose, and then build our relations with Croatia on these new foundations", said Ljajić.He added that Serbia would like to have an out-of-court settlement so as to ease tensions between the states, and noted that Serbia filed the counter-suit 10 years after Croatia lodged its genocide lawsuit, expecting that it would be dropped.
“Unfortunately, there may have been a willingness among Croatia's top officials to drop the lawsuit, but not the courage due to public pressure,” Ljajić said.
He said that Croatia insisted on resolving the issue of missing persons as a prerequisite for dropping the lawsuits, for which Serbia was ready since, as he put it, that is not a political, but rather humanitarian issue.
“Suddenly, we saw the news that Croatia was strengthening its legal team, which was a clear signal that at this moment they do not have an adequate political climate for dropping the lawsuits," Ljajić said.
Croatia filed a genocide lawsuit against Serbia in 1999, related to the war of the first half of that decade, and the ICJ decided in 2008 that it had the jurisdiction to hear the case.
On January 4, 2009, Serbia filed a countersuit, charging Croatia with genocidal actions and the ethnic cleansing of over 400,000 Serbs from Croatia, also during the 1990s war.
The suit against Croatia also deals with the crimes which the Ustasha movement of the fascist Independent State of Croatia (NDH) WW2 entity committed against Serbs.
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