SPLIT, Feb 12 (Hina) - The Serb National Council (SNV) advocates an expedient implementation of an agreement the foreign ministers of Croatia and Yugoslavia reached with regard to the exchange of detainees and convicts according to
the "all for all" principle. Serb detainees in the Split County prison want the same, said SNV president and Croatian MP Milorad Pupovac after visiting the 16 detainees in question in the southern Croatian port on Friday. According to the SNV, 15 of these were sentenced, though not finally, for crimes committed during the Serb rebellion in Croatia earlier this decade, while one detainee has still not been tried. Pupovac said it was in both Croatia's and Yugoslavia's interest, as well as in that of the families, to implement the foreign ministers' August 1998 agreement on the "all for all" exchange. State commissions for legal issues ne
SPLIT, Feb 12 (Hina) - The Serb National Council (SNV) advocates an
expedient implementation of an agreement the foreign ministers of
Croatia and Yugoslavia reached with regard to the exchange of
detainees and convicts according to the "all for all" principle.
Serb detainees in the Split County prison want the same, said SNV
president and Croatian MP Milorad Pupovac after visiting the 16
detainees in question in the southern Croatian port on Friday.
According to the SNV, 15 of these were sentenced, though not
finally, for crimes committed during the Serb rebellion in Croatia
earlier this decade, while one detainee has still not been tried.
Pupovac said it was in both Croatia's and Yugoslavia's interest, as
well as in that of the families, to implement the foreign ministers'
August 1998 agreement on the "all for all" exchange.
State commissions for legal issues need to draft the legal
framework for the exchange, he added.
The SNV recently forwarded a letter to the two countries' foreign
ministers, requesting that competent bodies in both countries
agree on the legal framework in order to expedite the exchange.
Pupovac said the detainees in the Split prison were treated "very
correctly" and that the prison administration was satisfied with
their behaviour.
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