MOSTAR, Aug 16 (Hina) - The National Party "Working for Prosperity" whose founders are the owners of the Bosnian leading meat industry, "Lijanovici" from Siroki Brijeg, on Friday indirectly suggested that Sarajevo should sign a
bilateral agreement with the United States relating to excluding US soldiers from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court for war crimes (ICC).
MOSTAR, Aug 16 (Hina) - The National Party "Working for Prosperity"
whose founders are the owners of the Bosnian leading meat industry,
"Lijanovici" from Siroki Brijeg, on Friday indirectly suggested
that Sarajevo should sign a bilateral agreement with the United
States relating to excluding US soldiers from the jurisdiction of
the International Criminal Court for war crimes (ICC). #L#
According to NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) sources there are
about 2,500 US soldiers deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina currently.
The US is a country that more decisively engaged itself in stopping
the bloody war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in the post-war period,
the US has contributed towards normalising circumstances, a
statement signed the National Party's vice president Jerko
Ivankovic said.
If the Americans directly condition their engagement in
international peace missions with being excluded from the
International Court, then keeping in mind all our war experiences,
we strongly support that attitude, Ivankovic said.
Croatian Democratic Union Bosnia-Herzegovina (HDZ) officials who
wished to remain anonymous said a possibility of signing such a
bilateral agreement that would exempt US soldiers from the
jurisdiction of the ICC should not be rejected a priori. However,
the issue needs to be inspected carefully.
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