“Del Ponte was ready to probe NATO”

Former Hague spokesperson Florence Hartmann says Carla Del Ponte was ready to probe NATO for bombing Serbia. She added that neither NATO nor Serbia submitted to the UN court necessary evidence on the basis of which the chief Hague prosecutor could act and open an investigation into NATO’s actions. “Del Ponte was ready to probe NATO” “The evidence may exist, but it was never submitted to the ICTY, and the only thing that then president of Serbia and Montenegro offered to the Prosecution were propaganda books by Slobodan Milosevic, which did not suffice to start the probe,” Hartmann said in an interview to Belgrade daily Vecernje Novisti. According to her, it also took Serbia "quite a long time" to submit the evidence on Serb victims in Kosovo and in the Srebrenica region. The former Hague spokesperson recently published a book titled “Peace and Punishment” where she accused major world powers of impeding the arrest of war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. She writes that Russians had their own “brotherly reasons”, while Americans, the UK and France looked to "hide the terms and concessions" underlying the signing of the Dayton Treaty. “My book is a concrete example of the works of international justice, which lacks its own judiciary police and depends on the good will. Therefore, it is liable to political interventions,” concludes Hartman.

“Del Ponte was ready to probe NATO”

“The evidence may exist, but it was never submitted to the ICTY, and the only thing that then president of Serbia and Montenegro offered to the Prosecution were propaganda books by Slobodan Milošević, which did not suffice to start the probe,” Hartmann said in an interview to Belgrade daily Večernje Novisti.

According to her, it also took Serbia "quite a long time" to submit the evidence on Serb victims in Kosovo and in the Srebrenica region.

The former Hague spokesperson recently published a book titled “Peace and Punishment” where she accused major world powers of impeding the arrest of war crimes suspects Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić.

She writes that Russians had their own “brotherly reasons”, while Americans, the UK and France looked to "hide the terms and concessions" underlying the signing of the Dayton Treaty.

“My book is a concrete example of the works of international justice, which lacks its own judiciary police and depends on the good will. Therefore, it is liable to political interventions,” concludes Hartman.