SARAJEVO, Jan 10 (Hina) - Senior international officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina have called on Sefer Halilovic to give up his plans of returning to the post of minister for refugees of the Croat-Bosniak Federation until proceedings
conducted against him before the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) are completed. Patrik Wolf, spokesman for the Office of the High Representative (OHR), said in Sarajevo on Thursday that Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, the commander of the Stabilisation Force, General John Sylvester, the head of the U.N. Mission, Jacques Klein, and the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission, Robert Beecroft, were unanimous in their opinion that Halilovic should not return to the post he held before deciding to surrender voluntarily to the tribunal. Halilovic, who has been charged with war crimes against Croats in the villages
SARAJEVO, Jan 10 (Hina) - Senior international officials in Bosnia-
Herzegovina have called on Sefer Halilovic to give up his plans of
returning to the post of minister for refugees of the Croat-Bosniak
Federation until proceedings conducted against him before the
Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) are completed.
Patrik Wolf, spokesman for the Office of the High Representative
(OHR), said in Sarajevo on Thursday that Ambassador Wolfgang
Petritsch, the commander of the Stabilisation Force, General John
Sylvester, the head of the U.N. Mission, Jacques Klein, and the head
of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Mission, Robert Beecroft, were unanimous in their opinion that
Halilovic should not return to the post he held before deciding to
surrender voluntarily to the tribunal.
Halilovic, who has been charged with war crimes against Croats in
the villages of Grabovica and Uzdol, was released recently pending
trial, which has been scheduled for June.
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