“Cooperation with Hague Tribunal to be finished soon”

National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal President Rasim Ljajić says Serbia is nearing the end of cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 08.06.2011.

13:45

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National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal President Rasim Ljajic says Serbia is nearing the end of cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. “The issue will soon disappear from the list of problems,” he told Banja Luka-based daily Glas Srpske. “Cooperation with Hague Tribunal to be finished soon” He assessed that Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s report to the UN Security Council was realistic and in accordance with the situation in the field after Ratko Mladic’s arrest, adding that the most important thing for Serbia was that the main part of the cooperation had been finished. “This takes a huge burden of our shoulders because the Hague Tribunal will disappear from the list of problems we have been facing for more than ten years. Brammertz’s report is a recap of what we have in cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, therefore the actual situation. There are no big surprises there. The most important thing for us is that the main work in the cooperation is finished,” Ljajic explained. He said that the government would not allow Serbia to be exposed to international pressure for ten more years because of the remaining Hague indictee Goran Hadzic. “If we extradited 45 Hague fugitives, I don’t see any logic that anybody would call our cooperation with the Hague Tribunal into question for the sake of one Goran Hadzic. We want to take it off the agenda as a problem and the only way to do that is that Goran Hadzic is in The Hague,” the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal president pointed out. According to him, the remaining Hague fugitive has two options. “One is to voluntarily surrender himself, which would be far better for him and his family because he would that way exercise the rights envisaged by the Law on Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, including the right to financial help. If that does not happen, he will be located and extradited to the Hague Tribunal sooner or later. We won’t let the country be exposed to international pressures in the next ten years because of Hadzic,” Ljajic concluded. Rasim Ljajic

“Cooperation with Hague Tribunal to be finished soon”

He assessed that Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s report to the UN Security Council was realistic and in accordance with the situation in the field after Ratko Mladić’s arrest, adding that the most important thing for Serbia was that the main part of the cooperation had been finished.

“This takes a huge burden of our shoulders because the Hague Tribunal will disappear from the list of problems we have been facing for more than ten years. Brammertz’s report is a recap of what we have in cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, therefore the actual situation. There are no big surprises there. The most important thing for us is that the main work in the cooperation is finished,” Ljajić explained.

He said that the government would not allow Serbia to be exposed to international pressure for ten more years because of the remaining Hague indictee Goran Hadžić.

“If we extradited 45 Hague fugitives, I don’t see any logic that anybody would call our cooperation with the Hague Tribunal into question for the sake of one Goran Hadžić. We want to take it off the agenda as a problem and the only way to do that is that Goran Hadžić is in The Hague,” the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal president pointed out.

According to him, the remaining Hague fugitive has two options.

“One is to voluntarily surrender himself, which would be far better for him and his family because he would that way exercise the rights envisaged by the Law on Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, including the right to financial help. If that does not happen, he will be located and extradited to the Hague Tribunal sooner or later. We won’t let the country be exposed to international pressures in the next ten years because of Hadžić,” Ljajić concluded.

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