BELGRADE, Dec 4 (Hina) - Serbia and Montenegro's minister for human and minority rights, Rasim Ljajic, has said that there will be no transfers of indictees to the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia before
parliamentary elections in Serbia, which are scheduled for December 28.
BELGRADE, Dec 4 (Hina) - Serbia and Montenegro's minister for human
and minority rights, Rasim Ljajic, has said that there will be no
transfers of indictees to the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia before parliamentary elections in Serbia, which
are scheduled for December 28. #L#
"The fact that the radical right has grown stronger is, among other
things, the result of the international community's relationship
towards Serbia. The constant pressure has provoked resistance in
the public and the reform potential has grown weaker to the
advantage of the radical right, which refuses cooperation with the
international community," Ljajic said in an interview with Blic
daily.
The fact that as many as three indictees of the Hague-based tribunal
- Slobodan Milosevic, Vojislav Seselj, and Nebojsa Pavkovic - are
heading some electoral slates in the upcoming parliamentary
elections, "will not be received well in the international
community and will affect Serbia's international image and
position".
The UN tribunal recently issued indictments against four Serbian
army and police generals, after which the US authorities, as over
the past three years, called on Serbia and Montenegro to cooperate.
Serbia and Montenegro was also requested to arrest and transfer
Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic by 31 March next year, so
it could receive financial assistance of some 100 million dollars.
(hina) rml