“Political pressure to return Karadžić passports”

Miroslav Lajčak says he was under political pressure to allow the Karadžić family to visit Belgrade.

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Thursday, 31.07.2008.

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Miroslav Lajcak says he was under political pressure to allow the Karadzic family to visit Belgrade. The international high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina said that he had been pressured into giving the family their passports back while Karadzic was being held in custody in Belgrade, in order to allow them to come and visit him before his extradition to the Hague Tribunal. “Political pressure to return Karadzic passports” “The decision (to give them their passports back) has nothing to do with my emotions, but depends on what key partners have to say, first and foremost, the Hague Tribunal. The whole campaign about them not having enough money to go to The Hague is a lie,” Lajcak told Czech daily Lidove Noviny. The members of Karadzic’s family were not able to see him while he was in Belgrade because their passports and other personal documents were confiscated earlier to prevent them leaving Bosnia-Herzegovina. Meanwhile, the British tabloid The Sun and several other publications from Germany, Holland and Slovenia, as well as Belgrade daily Blic, have published a picture of Karadzic taken on Monday while he was being held in custody in the Special Court in Belgrade. Karadzic looks significantly slimmer than he was in the 1990s. When he arrived in custody, the former Bosnian Serb leader shaved off his long beard that he had grown while assuming the identity of Dragan Dabic. Blic’s sources state that Karadzic is in exceptionally good health, attributing this to his diet, fasting, and the alternative medicine that he practiced while on the run. According to state broadcaster RTS, Karadzic told the public prosecutor in Belgrade before he was extradited to The Hague that a deal existed between him and U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke guaranteeing him immunity if he pulled out of political and public life completely. Former Republic of Srpska Foreign Minister Aleksa Buha, who was a close colleague of Karadzic’s, also claims that such a deal was cut. The former U.S. envoy to the Balkans, however, has denied the claims on many occasions. “Neither I nor Madeleine Albright did such a thing. That is a complete fabrication and that would be, not only immoral, but also illegal,” Holbrooke told daily Dnevni Avaz recently. He added that he would be willing to testify in Karadzic’s trial if called to do so.

“Political pressure to return Karadžić passports”

“The decision (to give them their passports back) has nothing to do with my emotions, but depends on what key partners have to say, first and foremost, the Hague Tribunal. The whole campaign about them not having enough money to go to The Hague is a lie,” Lajčak told Czech daily Lidove Noviny.

The members of Karadžić’s family were not able to see him while he was in Belgrade because their passports and other personal documents were confiscated earlier to prevent them leaving Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Meanwhile, the British tabloid The Sun and several other publications from Germany, Holland and Slovenia, as well as Belgrade daily Blic, have published a picture of Karadžić taken on Monday while he was being held in custody in the Special Court in Belgrade.

Karadžić looks significantly slimmer than he was in the 1990s. When he arrived in custody, the former Bosnian Serb leader shaved off his long beard that he had grown while assuming the identity of Dragan Dabić.

Blic’s sources state that Karadžić is in exceptionally good health, attributing this to his diet, fasting, and the alternative medicine that he practiced while on the run.

According to state broadcaster RTS, Karadžić told the public prosecutor in Belgrade before he was extradited to The Hague that a deal existed between him and U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke guaranteeing him immunity if he pulled out of political and public life completely.

Former Republic of Srpska Foreign Minister Aleksa Buha, who was a close colleague of Karadžić’s, also claims that such a deal was cut.

The former U.S. envoy to the Balkans, however, has denied the claims on many occasions.

“Neither I nor Madeleine Albright did such a thing. That is a complete fabrication and that would be, not only immoral, but also illegal,” Holbrooke told daily Dnevni Avaz recently.

He added that he would be willing to testify in Karadžić’s trial if called to do so.

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