BELGRADE, Nov 25 (Hina) - "If (Yugoslavia) wants to be become a EU member" it is of the "utmost urgency" to open a debate on committed war crimes and the definition of the cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal, and to
prosecute war crimes at home, Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said in Belgrade on Saturday. Addressing an international conference on Yugoslavia's European future, Svilanovic said "not one of those three issues" had been carried out in Yugoslavia in the past year, since former President Slobodan Milosevic was ousted. "There is no state policy" with regard to cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or a stance towards Serbs who committed war crimes in formal or paramilitary units, or towards Serbs who were the victims of war crimes, said Svilanovic. The chief of diplomacy maintains Yugoslavia must accept access to the European Union as a process
BELGRADE, Nov 25 (Hina) - "If (Yugoslavia) wants to be become a EU
member" it is of the "utmost urgency" to open a debate on committed
war crimes and the definition of the cooperation with the Hague war
crimes tribunal, and to prosecute war crimes at home, Foreign
Minister Goran Svilanovic said in Belgrade on Saturday.
Addressing an international conference on Yugoslavia's European
future, Svilanovic said "not one of those three issues" had been
carried out in Yugoslavia in the past year, since former President
Slobodan Milosevic was ousted.
"There is no state policy" with regard to cooperation with the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or a
stance towards Serbs who committed war crimes in formal or
paramilitary units, or towards Serbs who were the victims of war
crimes, said Svilanovic.
The chief of diplomacy maintains Yugoslavia must accept access to
the European Union as a process which will take ten years, during
which the country itself will change by adopting EU standards.
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