Tribunal fails to fulfill goals, official says

Serbian government's National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal President Rasim Ljajić says the Tribunal has failed to fulfill any of its goals.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 17.11.2012.

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BELGRADE Serbian government's National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal President Rasim Ljajic says the Tribunal has failed to fulfill any of its goals. He told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) on Friday night that the acquittal of Croat generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac was politically motivated. Tribunal fails to fulfill goals, official says He added that he expected the verdict in the case of Ramush Haradinaj, one of the leaders of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) charged with crimes against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, to be motivated in the same way. The Appeals Chamber is due to deliver the verdict on November 29. Ljajic noted that he did not expect anything good in the Haradinaj case, since it was now clear that policy was greatly involved here. The Serbian official stressed that former Hague Tribunal Head Fausto Pocar in his closing statement dissenting from the ruling in favor of the Croatian generals had said that this had nothing to do with justice, or anything that was justice-related. He underlined that the verdict to Gotovina and Markac was a proof of selective justice, a heavy defeat of international law, a new blow to the victims and their families and mocking at all who fought for years to extradite all inductees and cooperate with the Tribunal. “Now it all came to nothing and in 20 years of the its existence the Hague Tribunal has not fulfilled any of the goals for which it was formed,” Ljajic pointed out. “Following the latest ruling in The Hague, it is pointless to tell anyone in Serbia about facing the past, value of the reconciliation process, and importance of normalization of relations between nations and states of former Yugoslavia,” he concluded. The Serbian government met on Friday and decided to reduce its cooperation with the Hague Trbunal to a technical level. Rasim Ljajic (Tanjug, file) Tanjug

Tribunal fails to fulfill goals, official says

He added that he expected the verdict in the case of Ramush Haradinaj, one of the leaders of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) charged with crimes against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, to be motivated in the same way.

The Appeals Chamber is due to deliver the verdict on November 29.

Ljajić noted that he did not expect anything good in the Haradinaj case, since it was now clear that policy was greatly involved here.

The Serbian official stressed that former Hague Tribunal Head Fausto Pocar in his closing statement dissenting from the ruling in favor of the Croatian generals had said that this had nothing to do with justice, or anything that was justice-related.

He underlined that the verdict to Gotovina and Markač was a proof of selective justice, a heavy defeat of international law, a new blow to the victims and their families and mocking at all who fought for years to extradite all inductees and cooperate with the Tribunal.

“Now it all came to nothing and in 20 years of the its existence the Hague Tribunal has not fulfilled any of the goals for which it was formed,” Ljajić pointed out.

“Following the latest ruling in The Hague, it is pointless to tell anyone in Serbia about facing the past, value of the reconciliation process, and importance of normalization of relations between nations and states of former Yugoslavia,” he concluded.

The Serbian government met on Friday and decided to reduce its cooperation with the Hague Trbunal to a technical level.

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