HRW urges EU to pressure Serbia

The European Union (EU) should press Serbia to cooperate fully with the Hague Tribunal before it considers the country's EU accession.

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 26.10.2010.

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The European Union (EU) should press Serbia to cooperate fully with the Hague Tribunal before it considers the country's EU accession. This was announced by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a statement. HRW urges EU to pressure Serbia The EU's commitment to international justice will be measured by its willingness to pressure Serbia in the months to come to arrest the two remaining war crimes suspects, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, the statement on the HRW website reads. The organization recalled that EU Foreign Affairs Ministers decided that Serbia's cooperation with the Hague will be thoroughly considered at each next step on the EU accession path. Using this provision, the EU should use all upcoming opportunities to press Serbia to cooperate fully with the Hague, and also actively engage with and assist Belgrade in apprehending and arresting the suspects, the HRW believes. The EU should not give in to Serbia's half-hearted cooperation with the Hague, said HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth. The EU needs to go beyond lip-service to accountability, or the victims of Srebrenica will never get the justice they deserve. The EU's credibility on international justice is on the line. If the EU does not follow through to ensure the arrest of the Hague last fugitives for war crimes committed in the heart of Europe, it will be hard to insist on justice for such crimes elsewhere, Roth believes. The same statement reads that Mladic and Hadzic are believed to be within reach of Serbian authorities.

HRW urges EU to pressure Serbia

The EU's commitment to international justice will be measured by its willingness to pressure Serbia in the months to come to arrest the two remaining war crimes suspects, Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić, the statement on the HRW website reads.

The organization recalled that EU Foreign Affairs Ministers decided that Serbia's cooperation with the Hague will be thoroughly considered at each next step on the EU accession path.

Using this provision, the EU should use all upcoming opportunities to press Serbia to cooperate fully with the Hague, and also actively engage with and assist Belgrade in apprehending and arresting the suspects, the HRW believes.
The EU should not give in to Serbia's half-hearted cooperation with the Hague, said HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth.

The EU needs to go beyond lip-service to accountability, or the victims of Srebrenica will never get the justice they deserve. The EU's credibility on international justice is on the line. If the EU does not follow through to ensure the arrest of the Hague last fugitives for war crimes committed in the heart of Europe, it will be hard to insist on justice for such crimes elsewhere, Roth believes.

The same statement reads that Mladić and Hadžić are believed to be within reach of Serbian authorities.

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