SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, Nov 2 (Hina) - The international community's HighRepresentative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, on Tuesdaycalled on the authorities of the Bosnian Serb entity to finally showthrough their actions that they
were ready to cooperate in arrestingwar crimes indictees and added that the inclusion of Bosnian Serbs ina discussion on the upcoming constitutional changes in Bosnia woulddepend on the demonstration of their readiness to cooperate.
SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, Nov 2 (Hina) - The international community's
High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, on Tuesday called on
the authorities of the Bosnian Serb entity to finally show through their
actions that they were ready to cooperate in arresting war crimes indictees and
added that the inclusion of Bosnian Serbs in a discussion on the upcoming
constitutional changes in Bosnia would depend on the demonstration of their
readiness to cooperate.Addressing deputies in the Republika Srpska parliament in Banja Luka,
Ashdown said that over the past nine years the Bosnian Serb authorities had not
make any concrete moves so as to meet their obligation toward the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
You do not respect the Dayton Agreement and the Constitution of this
country, Ashdown told Bosnian Serb deputies and added that over the past nine
years the Bosnian Serb authorities had not done anything to help arrest Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
The High Representative said such a conduct represented a real threat
for the future of Republika Srpska because one cannot insist on the
preservation of this entity, as regulated in the Dayton Agreement, and ignore
all other regulations from the Dayton Agreement.
There are only several more weeks left to demonstrate readiness to
cooperate with the ICTY, the Briton said.