War crimes prosecutor meets U.S. ambassador

War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimr Vukčević on Monday in Belgrade met with U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Cameron Munter.

Izvor: Beta

Monday, 27.04.2009.

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War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimr Vukcevic on Monday in Belgrade met with U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Cameron Munter. Vukcevic qualified the meeting as very constructive, and said they discussed concrete issues. War crimes prosecutor meets U.S. ambassador The prosecutor told journalists, that he and Munter had discussed the issue of suspected Nazi war criminal Peter Egner, now a U.S. citizen wanted for crimes committed in Serbia during the Second World War, trafficking of organs taken from kidnapped Kosovo Serbs, the Bytyqi case of three U.S. citizens of Albanian origin killed in Serbia in 1999, as well the establishment of cooperation between the American and the Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor. Vukcevic said he expected Egner to be extradited to Serbia. The prosecutor also said he asked Munter that his country "uses the reputation it enjoyes in the international community so that the crimes committed in Kosovo and Metohija could be thoroughly investigated, with the help of the EULEX" Munter said after the talks that he appreciated the efforts Vukcevic and his team made, and assessed that Vukcevic did his work in a professional and impartial manner, which, as he put it, was an example of courageousness in the region. Beta news agency reports that Munter commended the Serbian prosecutor's efforts in the Hague cooperation for the sake of Serbia's EU path and justice. Serbia has made "huge progress" in that cooperation, he was quoted as saying. Munter, Vukcevic in Belgrade today (Beta)

War crimes prosecutor meets U.S. ambassador

The prosecutor told journalists, that he and Munter had discussed the issue of suspected Nazi war criminal Peter Egner, now a U.S. citizen wanted for crimes committed in Serbia during the Second World War, trafficking of organs taken from kidnapped Kosovo Serbs, the Bytyqi case of three U.S. citizens of Albanian origin killed in Serbia in 1999, as well the establishment of cooperation between the American and the Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor.

Vukčević said he expected Egner to be extradited to Serbia.

The prosecutor also said he asked Munter that his country "uses the reputation it enjoyes in the international community so that the crimes committed in Kosovo and Metohija could be thoroughly investigated, with the help of the EULEX"

Munter said after the talks that he appreciated the efforts Vukčević and his team made, and assessed that Vukčević did his work in a professional and impartial manner, which, as he put it, was an example of courageousness in the region.

Beta news agency reports that Munter commended the Serbian prosecutor's efforts in the Hague cooperation for the sake of Serbia's EU path and justice.

Serbia has made "huge progress" in that cooperation, he was quoted as saying.

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