BELGRADE, March 17 (Hina) - Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) President Svetozar Marovic has said his priorities will be spurring the country's return into European institutions and regulating relations with the war crimes tribunal in The
Hague "not to the detriment, but to the benefit of the state".
BELGRADE, March 17 (Hina) - Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) President
Svetozar Marovic has said his priorities will be spurring the
country's return into European institutions and regulating
relations with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague "not to the
detriment, but to the benefit of the state". #L#
"The SCG Army chief-of-staff has told me the military is doing its
job in line with the law and that it is not hiding anybody. It is
important that we remove the doubt that there are structures in the
army which are doing something of the sort," Marovic told Vecernje
novosti daily.
"An entire people cannot be suspected of crimes nor be punished by
not taking the road of progress that our citizens expect because of
suspicion that some individual has committed a crime."
Marovic said the country needed to reach a consensus regarding
cooperation with the Hague tribunal, and that the media should be
used to create the impression that it was neither Serbs nor
Montenegrins who were on trial there, but people suspected of war
crimes.
"The people must be told clearly what will happen to them if we don't
cooperate with the tribunal," he said.
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