WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Hina) - US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said on Monday the United States expected the new government in Serbia-Montenegro to cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague and that relations
between the two countries would depend on that cooperation.
WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Hina) - US State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher said on Monday the United States expected the new government
in Serbia-Montenegro to cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal in
The Hague and that relations between the two countries would depend on
that cooperation.#L#
Boucher was commenting on Saturday's statement by Serbian prime
minister-designate Vojislav Kostunica that the handover of war crimes
indictees to the Hague tribunal would not be his government's
priority.
Our relations with the new Serbian government will depend on the
actions it takes, including cooperation with the International
Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia, Boucher told a press
conference.
The US is to decide by March 31 whether it will approve about 100
million in aid to Serbia-Montenegro, which it has linked to
cooperation with the Hague tribunal, including the handover of Bosnian
Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic.
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