Brammertz expects "key help" from Serbia

The Hague expects “key help” from Serbia in finding the remaining war crimes fugitives, says Serge Brammertz.

Izvor: Beta

Thursday, 20.03.2008.

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The Hague expects “key help” from Serbia in finding the remaining war crimes fugitives, says Serge Brammertz. The new Hague chief prosecutor talked today to Coordinator of the Team for Implementing the Serbian Government’s Action Plan Rasim Ljajic and War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic. Brammertz expects "key help" from Serbia “Brammertz said that the prosecutor’s office would continue to rely on key help from Serbia, other former Yugoslav countries, as well as the international community in attempting to arrest Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic, Goran Hadzic and Stojan Zupljanin,“ reads a statement. Stressing that cooperation between countries in the region and the prosecutor’s office in The Hague is “of the utmost importance,” Brammertz, according to the statement, told Ljajic and Vukcevic that, by cooperation, he meant “access to witnesses, documents and archives, as well as the arrest of the fugitives.” In their first meeting with the new prosecutor, Vukcevic and Ljajic stressed that Serbia remained “committed to achieving full cooperation with the Hague.” They also informed him of “the present situation in Serbia, especially relating to cooperation with the Tribunal.” The three men “agreed that Brammertz will visit Belgrade as soon as possible,” announced the Hague. The prosecutor spoke to the two Serbian officials for almost two hours. After the meeting, neither Ljajic nor Vukcevic wanted to give a statement to Beta. Since taking over from Carla Del Ponte on January 1, Brammertz has not commented on Serbian cooperation with the Tribunal, stating that Del Ponte’s final appraisal that Belgrade was not cooperating sufficiently remains “in force.” The EU has set full cooperation with the Hague—ie. capturing Mladic—as the condition for signing the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA). The new Hague prosecutor recently paid his first visits to Zagreb and Sarajevo, though his first trip to Belgrade has been postponed in the light of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence. Serge Brammertz (www.un.org)

Brammertz expects "key help" from Serbia

“Brammertz said that the prosecutor’s office would continue to rely on key help from Serbia, other former Yugoslav countries, as well as the international community in attempting to arrest Ratko Mladić, Radovan Karadžić, Goran Hadžić and Stojan Župljanin,“ reads a statement.

Stressing that cooperation between countries in the region and the prosecutor’s office in The Hague is “of the utmost importance,” Brammertz, according to the statement, told Ljajić and Vukčević that, by cooperation, he meant “access to witnesses, documents and archives, as well as the arrest of the fugitives.”

In their first meeting with the new prosecutor, Vukčević and Ljajić stressed that Serbia remained “committed to achieving full cooperation with the Hague.” They also informed him of “the present situation in Serbia, especially relating to cooperation with the Tribunal.”

The three men “agreed that Brammertz will visit Belgrade as soon as possible,” announced the Hague.

The prosecutor spoke to the two Serbian officials for almost two hours.

After the meeting, neither Ljajić nor Vukčević wanted to give a statement to Beta.

Since taking over from Carla Del Ponte on January 1, Brammertz has not commented on Serbian cooperation with the Tribunal, stating that Del Ponte’s final appraisal that Belgrade was not cooperating sufficiently remains “in force.”

The EU has set full cooperation with the Hague—ie. capturing Mladić—as the condition for signing the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA).

The new Hague prosecutor recently paid his first visits to Zagreb and Sarajevo, though his first trip to Belgrade has been postponed in the light of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence.

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