PODGORICA, Feb 2 (Hina) - The Chief Prosecutor of the InternationalCriminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte,in Podgorica on Tuesday evening held talks with Montenegrin PrimeMinister Milo Djukanovic who
assured her that competent bodies in hiscountry, notably the police, the judiciary and the Prosecutor'sOffice, were ready to support ICTY representatives in Montenegro inthe future, the Montenegrin government said in a statement.
PODGORICA, Feb 2 (Hina) - The Chief Prosecutor of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte, in
Podgorica on Tuesday evening held talks with Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo
Djukanovic who assured her that competent bodies in his country, notably the
police, the judiciary and the Prosecutor's Office, were ready to support ICTY
representatives in Montenegro in the future, the Montenegrin government said in
a statement.Djukanovic said Montenegro was ready to cooperate with the bodies of
other countries so as to find and arrest ICTY indictees.
The Montenegrin PM used the opportunity to remind del Ponte that his
country insisted on the realisation if full cooperation with the ICTY in the
other member of the state community of Serbia and Montenegro -- Serbia --
because consequences of noncooperation led to isolation and the delay of
Montenegro's inclusion into Euo-Atlantic associations.
According to the statement, del Ponte and Djukanovic stressed the need
for full cooperation of all former Yugoslav countries with the ICTY so as to
help the individualisation of crimes by arresting the indictees.
The ICTY Chief Prosecutor will meet Montenegrin President Filip
Vujanovic, Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahovic and Interior Minister Dragan
Djurevic On Wednesday.