“Serbia has been punished enough”

Rasim Ljajić says that Serbia has already been punished enough over unsolved issue of the Hague Tribunal.

Izvor: Dnevnik

Sunday, 10.10.2010.

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Rasim Ljajic says that Serbia has already been punished enough over unsolved issue of the Hague Tribunal. Head of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal Rasim Ljajic stressed that insisting on continuation of such punishing was “absolutely counter-productive and unjust”. “Serbia has been punished enough” “We have done plenty in order to improve cooperation with the tribunal. We’ve arrested Karadzic, given practically all requested documentation,” Ljajic told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik. “Only thing left is to go to The Hague, lock ourselves up there and say – here, we’ll be here until Mladic is arrested,” said the head of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. He has repeated his position that Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s statements that the pressure on Serbia was increasing are “purely political”, even though Brammertz claimed that he would not make political assessments. Ljajic points out that Hague Tribunal President Patrick Robinson did not go into assessment of Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague Tribunal last week in Belgrade. He also added that it was understandable that Robinson had supported Brammertz and stressed that it was “an indisputable fact that we have made significant progress in the cooperation in all segments”. He stressed that the chief prosecutor had actually agreed and said that “we are doing everything on an operational level in order to come to a trace that leads to Mladic and Hadzic”. The head of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal has assessed that it would be “a big mistake and unfair after everything we have done” if the Netherlands used the chief prosecutor’s hard-line position as an excuse not to approve Serbia’s EU candidacy bid on October 25. According to him, such move could increase the number of Euro-skeptics in Serbia and “create new internal problems”. Ljajic pointed out that the issue of Sandzak could not represent a problem on Serbia’s road toward the EU “simply because in the past ten years Serbia has been praised mostly for what it achieved in the field of human and minority rights”. Rasim Ljajic (Beta, file)

“Serbia has been punished enough”

“We have done plenty in order to improve cooperation with the tribunal. We’ve arrested Karadžić, given practically all requested documentation,” Ljajić told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik.

“Only thing left is to go to The Hague, lock ourselves up there and say – here, we’ll be here until Mladić is arrested,” said the head of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.

He has repeated his position that Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s statements that the pressure on Serbia was increasing are “purely political”, even though Brammertz claimed that he would not make political assessments.

Ljajić points out that Hague Tribunal President Patrick Robinson did not go into assessment of Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague Tribunal last week in Belgrade. He also added that it was understandable that Robinson had supported Brammertz and stressed that it was “an indisputable fact that we have made significant progress in the cooperation in all segments”.

He stressed that the chief prosecutor had actually agreed and said that “we are doing everything on an operational level in order to come to a trace that leads to Mladić and Hadžić”.

The head of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal has assessed that it would be “a big mistake and unfair after everything we have done” if the Netherlands used the chief prosecutor’s hard-line position as an excuse not to approve Serbia’s EU candidacy bid on October 25.

According to him, such move could increase the number of Euro-skeptics in Serbia and “create new internal problems”.

Ljajić pointed out that the issue of Sandžak could not represent a problem on Serbia’s road toward the EU “simply because in the past ten years Serbia has been praised mostly for what it achieved in the field of human and minority rights”.

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