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BELGRADE, Dec. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Serbia-Montenegro now faces increased pressure
on war crimes cooperation following the arrest of a top war crimes suspect, a
government minister said on Friday.
"We need to have clear and transparent answers to show full cooperativeness
towards the war crimes tribunal and enable access to our archives, which will be
assessed as a great advance in cooperation," said Rasim Ljajic, minister of
human and minorities Rights.
Visiting French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said that Croatia
had kept its promise to help track down its former general Ante Gotovina, who
was arrested on Wednesday night in Spain's Canary Islands with the cooperation
of Croatian authorities.
Ljajic, who is in charge of war crimes cooperation, said that huge efforts
were made to track down Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic, who is
widely believed to be hiding in Serbia.
Mladic and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic are thetwo most
wanted suspects wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Ljajic said that the country's Defense Ministry had handed thecomplete file
of Mladic to representatives of The Hague tribunal.
"We handed them a complete file, which is a concrete evidence of cooperation with the tribunal and fulfillment of obligations that we took upon ourselves," Ljajic said. Enditem |