"Talks on withdrawal of lawsuits when time is right"

FM Ivan Mrkić says that Serbia and Croatia are not negotiating about the withdrawal of mutual genocide lawsuits before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 21.06.2013.

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BELGRADE FM Ivan Mrkic says that Serbia and Croatia are not negotiating about the withdrawal of mutual genocide lawsuits before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). He added that this will happen when the two sides assess that the time is right and that this would be to the mutual benefit. "Talks on withdrawal of lawsuits when time is right" “Aside for the positive signals that Belgrade and Zagreb are sending in terms of mutual withdrawal of genocide lawsuits, which the two countries have submitted before the ICJ in The Hague, there are still no concrete talks about an out-of-court settlement,” Mrkic said for the Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti. Mrkic said ahead of Friday's visit to Belgrade by Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic that the lawsuits will be one of the topics of their talks. Mrkic noted that it was not Serbia that first filed its lawsuit against Croatia. The daily noted that Croatia is now "in a hurry to move this issue from a standstill before its EU accession on July 1, since Brussels expects that Croatia as a new member will not bring in new problems." After a period of cold relations, it was agreed at a number of meetings between top officials of Serbia and Croatia to again intensify the search for solutions to open issues in the two countries' relations including borders, restitution, and military cooperation, and particularly three topics which are crucial conditions for possible agreement on the lawsuits -fate of the missing persons, return of cultural heritage and trials to person indicted for war crimes, the article said. Vecernje Novosti learned from the Serbian Ministry of Justice that the two countries' legal teams should meet soon in order to harmonize the text of the bilateral agreement on the cession of war crime proceedings which are conducted in Serbia and Croatia. The drafting of this document started at the time of previous governments in Belgrade and Zagreb, and its initialing is the main condition for the agreement on an out-of-court settlement of the proceedings before the ICJ, the newspaper reported. Ivan Mrkic attends the government session on Thursday (Tanjug) Tanjug Vecernje novosti

"Talks on withdrawal of lawsuits when time is right"

“Aside for the positive signals that Belgrade and Zagreb are sending in terms of mutual withdrawal of genocide lawsuits, which the two countries have submitted before the ICJ in The Hague, there are still no concrete talks about an out-of-court settlement,” Mrkić said for the Belgrade-based daily Večernje Novosti.

Mrkić said ahead of Friday's visit to Belgrade by Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusić that the lawsuits will be one of the topics of their talks.

Mrkić noted that it was not Serbia that first filed its lawsuit against Croatia.

The daily noted that Croatia is now "in a hurry to move this issue from a standstill before its EU accession on July 1, since Brussels expects that Croatia as a new member will not bring in new problems."

After a period of cold relations, it was agreed at a number of meetings between top officials of Serbia and Croatia to again intensify the search for solutions to open issues in the two countries' relations including borders, restitution, and military cooperation, and particularly three topics which are crucial conditions for possible agreement on the lawsuits -fate of the missing persons, return of cultural heritage and trials to person indicted for war crimes, the article said.

Večernje Novosti learned from the Serbian Ministry of Justice that the two countries' legal teams should meet soon in order to harmonize the text of the bilateral agreement on the cession of war crime proceedings which are conducted in Serbia and Croatia.

The drafting of this document started at the time of previous governments in Belgrade and Zagreb, and its initialing is the main condition for the agreement on an out-of-court settlement of the proceedings before the ICJ, the newspaper reported.

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