BELGRADE, Aug 6 (Hina) - Serbia's authorities are going in coming days to offer "additional written guarantees" for the release of a Bosnian Serb indictee, Biljana Plavsic, from the detention centre in Scheveningen, The Netherlands,
and for her defence from freedom, Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic announced on Monday. Batic said the guarantees would refer to the take-over of Plavsic from the Dutch authorities, her accommodation in Belgrade and supervision and security of her around the clock as well as her escort and transport to The Hague when the UN war crimes tribunal (ICTY) orders it for further investigations. Asked why the Serbian government would give guarantees for this Bosnian Serb hard-line leader and a former president of the Republic of Srpska (Bosnian Serb entity), Batic answered this would be "a good path towards intensified cooperation" with the ICTY, and anothe
BELGRADE, Aug 6 (Hina) - Serbia's authorities are going in coming
days to offer "additional written guarantees" for the release of a
Bosnian Serb indictee, Biljana Plavsic, from the detention centre
in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, and for her defence from freedom,
Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic announced on Monday.
Batic said the guarantees would refer to the take-over of Plavsic
from the Dutch authorities, her accommodation in Belgrade and
supervision and security of her around the clock as well as her
escort and transport to The Hague when the UN war crimes tribunal
(ICTY) orders it for further investigations.
Asked why the Serbian government would give guarantees for this
Bosnian Serb hard-line leader and a former president of the
Republic of Srpska (Bosnian Serb entity), Batic answered this would
be "a good path towards intensified cooperation" with the ICTY, and
another reason was Plavsic's conduct, who, according to Batic,
showed "a great degree of moral and responsibility" by the
voluntary surrender to the Tribunal.
The minister expressed willingness to attend the Tribunal's
session, set for 29 August, when this UN court should decide about
Plavsic's request for her defence from freedom.
He added that as of Tuesday 40 citizens of Serbia would testify
before the Tribunal about "crimes the (ethnic Albanian) Liberation
Army of Kosovo committed against Serbs in Kosovo."
Batic expects that indictments will be issued against ethnic
Albanian leaders - Hasim Taqi, Ramush Hairadinai and Agim Qeku -
before general elections in that province, set for November, and
the minister predicts that their participation in the election will
be senseless.
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