Sarajevo holds news conferenceSARAJEVO, Aug 29 (Hina) - Over the past year, officials in the BosnianSerb entity and Serbia and Montenegro have changed their attitudetowards war crimes indictees, the outgoing commander of the
NATOheadquarters in Sarajevo, General Steven Schook, said at a newsconference on Monday, expressing optimism regarding the extradition ofRadovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to the Hague war crimes tribunal.
SARAJEVO, Aug 29 (Hina) - Over the past year, officials in the
Bosnian Serb entity and Serbia and Montenegro have changed their attitude
towards war crimes indictees, the outgoing commander of the NATO headquarters
in Sarajevo, General Steven Schook, said at a news conference on Monday,
expressing optimism regarding the extradition of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko
Mladic to the Hague war crimes tribunal. Schook said NATO would
continue to help efforts aimed at bringing Karadzic and Mladic to justice.
He went on to say that the replacement of the NATO-led Stabilisation
Force (SFOR) with the European Union Force (EUROFOR) and the establishment of
the NATO headquarters were the most important changes in international military
missions in Bosnia after the signing of the Dayton agreement.
Schook said the most important change on the local level was the
ongoing defence and armed forces reform, namely the abolishment the two
entities' defence ministries and the establishment of a single defence ministry
on the state level. The process should be completed by the start of next
year.
Schook will be replaced by US General Luis Weber next week.