BELGRADE, April 19 (Hina) - The new foreign minister of Serbia-Montenegro, Vuk Draskovic, has said that it would be best if his country gave up from the further procedure of suing NATO member-states before the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) in The Hague and that at the same time Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina should quit their genocide actions against Serbia-Montenegro.
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BELGRADE, April 19 (Hina) - The new foreign minister of
Serbia-Montenegro, Vuk Draskovic, has said that it would be best if
his country gave up from the further procedure of suing NATO
member-states before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The
Hague and that at the same time Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina should
quit their genocide actions against Serbia-Montenegro.#L#
"All of us, Serbia-Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, want to
go to Europe, but this cannot be done through legal actions. We cannot
build partner relations with NATO on legal actions. I think the best
solution is to withdraw legal actions," Draskovic told a news
conference on Monday after he took over the ministerial duty from his
predecessor, Goran Svilanovic.
To drop the legal action against NATO, which Belgrade filed before the
ICJ suing the alliance for its air strikes against the then Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, and to arrest Ratko Mladic, a war
crimes indictee, are two very important conditions which the country
should meet in order to be admitted to NATO's 'Partnership for Peace'
programme.
A four-day hearing before the ICJ on whether this court is competent
for Belgrade's legal action against NATO began on Monday. According to
unofficial sources, a decision on the matter can be expected not
before June.
(Hina) ms