Belgrade to respond to Hague report

Head of the National Council for Hague Cooperation Rasim Ljajić says Serbia will send its own response to Serge Brammertz’s negative report.

Izvor: B92

Thursday, 29.05.2008.

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Head of the National Council for Hague Cooperation Rasim Ljajic says Serbia will send its own response to Serge Brammertz’s negative report. Commenting on the Hague chief prosecutor’s statement that he would be sending a negative report to the UN regarding Serbia’s cooperation with the Tribunal, Ljajic told B92 that Serbia was currently unable to cooperate fully, but that much had nonetheless been done. Belgrade to respond to Hague report He rebuffed claims that Serbia was not cooperating in terms of access to archives and protecting witnesses, as stated in Brammertz’s report. Ljajic said that the Hague chief prosecutor was trying to exert added pressure on Serbia to meet its remaining obligations to the Tribunal—to arrest the four remaining fugitives. “Unfortunately, they are out of our reach—if they weren’t, they would already have been extradited. If we've already extradited so many people to the Tribunal, I don’t see why we wouldn’t want to do the same with the four remaining fugitives. It’s in our interests more than the Hague’s to find them as soon as possible,” he pointed out. Ljajic said that Brammertz’s report would not have any practical ramifications for Serbia, even though the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU cannot be ratified until the four remaining fugitives have been extradited. Rasim Ljajic (Tanjug, archive)

Belgrade to respond to Hague report

He rebuffed claims that Serbia was not cooperating in terms of access to archives and protecting witnesses, as stated in Brammertz’s report.

Ljajić said that the Hague chief prosecutor was trying to exert added pressure on Serbia to meet its remaining obligations to the Tribunal—to arrest the four remaining fugitives.

“Unfortunately, they are out of our reach—if they weren’t, they would already have been extradited. If we've already extradited so many people to the Tribunal, I don’t see why we wouldn’t want to do the same with the four remaining fugitives. It’s in our interests more than the Hague’s to find them as soon as possible,” he pointed out.

Ljajić said that Brammertz’s report would not have any practical ramifications for Serbia, even though the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU cannot be ratified until the four remaining fugitives have been extradited.

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