"This is not about a hunger strike, this is about refusing to eat prison meals, not about refusing food in general," the minister told Hina, adding that one of her assistants, in charge of the prison system, had informed her that the inmates were taking food in the prison canteen.
Dissatisfied with the failure to meet their request to be transferred to their country to continue serving their sentences there, 26 citizens of Serbia and Montenegro sentenced for war crimes started refusing prison meals last Saturday.
Skare Ozbolt said that she would discuss the possible transfer of those inmates with Serbia and Montenegro's Minister of Human and Minority Rights, Rasim Ljajic, on Friday.
She said that during her visit to Belgrade yesterday agreement was reached only on the start of talks on the transfer of inmates and that no other concrete agreements were reached.