The high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, said on Friday Ljiljana's plea to her fugitive husband to surrender clearly reflected what was in the best interest of Radovan Karadzic, the Serb people and stability in the region.
NATO said the plea was in the interest of Karadzic's family, but Bosnia as well. The commander of NATO's headquarters in Sarajevo, General Steven Schook, said Karadzic's refusal to surrender to the Hague tribunal was an obstacle to the progress of the peoples in Bosnia and of the entire region.
The government of the Bosnian Serb entity applauded Ljiljana Karadzic's gesture, saying in a press release it had required courage to make it.
Several Muslim officials, however, said they did not believe in the sincerity of Ljiljana's call on her husband to turn himself in. They added she could have chosen another way to urge him to surrender instead of doing so on Bosnian Serb television.