BELGRADE, Nov 11 (Hina) - The president of the International CriminalTribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Theodor Meron, who arrivedin Belgrade on Thursday at the invitation of Serbian Prime MinisterVojislav Kostunica, said on
Friday the international community wasgrowing impatient about Serbia's procrastinating the fulfilment of itsremaining obligations towards the tribunal and pointed to theextradition of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.
BELGRADE, Nov 11 (Hina) - The president of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Theodor Meron, who arrived
in Belgrade on Thursday at the invitation of Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav
Kostunica, said on Friday the international community was growing impatient
about Serbia's procrastinating the fulfilment of its remaining obligations
towards the tribunal and pointed to the extradition of Ratko Mladic and Radovan
Karadzic. Speaking to reporters after talks with Kostunica, Meron
said that in the past year Serbia had made significant progress in its
cooperation with the tribunal, but that the international community was
impatient to see Belgrade fulfil its remaining obligations, which was
particularly important in light of the EU's decision to launch talks with
Serbia and Montenegro on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement.
The fulfilment of those obligations will mean the fulfilment of
Serbia's moral obligation to extradite persons accused of horrible crimes which
are in contradiction with the heroic tradition of the Serbian people, Meron
said.
He added that Kostunica had told him at the talks that Serbia was ready
to meet is legal obligations.