"No rush with genocide lawsuit against Croatia"

President Boris Tadić says Serbia “would wait a while longer” before submitting its <a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=12&dd=24&nav_id=64006" class="text-link" target= "_blank">genocide lawsuit</a> against Croatia to the International Court of Justice, ICJ.

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Friday, 25.12.2009.

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President Boris Tadic says Serbia “would wait a while longer” before submitting its genocide lawsuit against Croatia to the International Court of Justice, ICJ. Commenting on the information that Serbian legal team has finished work on the lawsuit, which accuses Croatia of genocide against its ethnic Serbs, the president said that Serbia should not rush to file its countersuit. "No rush with genocide lawsuit against Croatia" Ten years ago, Croatia sued Serbia of committing genocide in its territory in the 1990s. Now Tadic says that Belgrade should work "gradually and wisely because that was the only way it could succeed", and likened this with the application for EU candidate status and visa regime liberalization. “In my opinion it would have been better if Croatia did not file the suit against Serbia and if Serbia did not have to respond with a countersuit, and if issues regarding the civil rights of both Croat and Serb citizens could be solved in processes which did not have such deep implications to our inter/state and international relations,” he said. “I hope we can improve our relations with Croatia,” the president stated. Leader of the Independent Democratic Serb Party from Croatia Milorad Pupovac, who was in Belgrade yesterday, said he "already proposed to the Croatian president to withdraw the lawsuit against Serbia before the end of his mandate". “The last thing Serbs living in Croatia need is reviving the debate about genocide,” Pupovac was quoted as saying. According to him, Croatia and Serbia should also prepare the ICJ for the possibility to withdraw their suits and start negotiating to avoid burdening the new Croatian president and new relations between the two countries with unsolved issues from the past.

"No rush with genocide lawsuit against Croatia"

Ten years ago, Croatia sued Serbia of committing genocide in its territory in the 1990s.

Now Tadić says that Belgrade should work "gradually and wisely because that was the only way it could succeed", and likened this with the application for EU candidate status and visa regime liberalization.

“In my opinion it would have been better if Croatia did not file the suit against Serbia and if Serbia did not have to respond with a countersuit, and if issues regarding the civil rights of both Croat and Serb citizens could be solved in processes which did not have such deep implications to our inter/state and international relations,” he said.

“I hope we can improve our relations with Croatia,” the president stated.

Leader of the Independent Democratic Serb Party from Croatia Milorad Pupovac, who was in Belgrade yesterday, said he "already proposed to the Croatian president to withdraw the lawsuit against Serbia before the end of his mandate".

“The last thing Serbs living in Croatia need is reviving the debate about genocide,” Pupovac was quoted as saying.

According to him, Croatia and Serbia should also prepare the ICJ for the possibility to withdraw their suits and start negotiating to avoid burdening the new Croatian president and new relations between the two countries with unsolved issues from the past.

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