Del Ponte wishes to encourage Serbia

Del Ponte wishes to encourage Serbia

“International community has a moral obligation to assist Serbia and its leadership in making appropriate decisions and in launching a decisive action to detain the remaining Hague fugitives,” Del Ponte said in her report.

Tanjug news agency had access to the report, which is 36 pages long and names six Hague fugitives allegedly hiding in Serbia. It was written in mid-May, two weeks before Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir was arrested.

The regular report compiled by Hague Tribunal President Fausto Pocar and Carla Del Ponte was, in the meantime, handed to UN Security Council ambassadors.

It would not be subjected to changes, as Del Ponte will directly address the Council on June 18, and inform UN diplomats about the latest developments in Serbia.

In her report, she reiterated that she believed the whereabouts of the two most wanted fugitives, namely Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, were in Serbia.

Del Ponte also recommended that Serbian authorities should work on locating former police general Vlastimir Đorđević, who is allegedly hiding in Russia.

She once again warned about the serious problems the Hague Prosecution had with respect to protection of witnesses in the trial of former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Ramush Haradinaj.