BELGRADE, Feb 25 (Hina) - A two-day meeting between Croatian and Yugoslav working groups for missing and imprisoned persons ended in Belgrade on Thursday without an agreement on the exchange of prisoners on principle "all for all".
The principle was agreed on by Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic and his Yugoslav counterpart Zivadin Jovanovic last August. The Croatian side remains at the stand point that the exchange must exclude persons indicted and suspected of war crimes, which is in line with the Dayton Agreement, the Agreement on the Normalisation of Relations between Croatia and FR Yugoslavia, international humanitarian law, and which has been confirmed by the most recent decision of the Croatian National Sabor. The Yugoslav side, on the other hand, insists that all Serbs be released from Croatian prisons, notwithstanding the nature of the crime they had committed or their citizenship. Head of the
BELGRADE, Feb 25 (Hina) - A two-day meeting between Croatian and
Yugoslav working groups for missing and imprisoned persons ended in
Belgrade on Thursday without an agreement on the exchange of
prisoners on principle "all for all".
The principle was agreed on by Croatian Foreign Minister Mate
Granic and his Yugoslav counterpart Zivadin Jovanovic last
August.
The Croatian side remains at the stand point that the exchange must
exclude persons indicted and suspected of war crimes, which is in
line with the Dayton Agreement, the Agreement on the Normalisation
of Relations between Croatia and FR Yugoslavia, international
humanitarian law, and which has been confirmed by the most recent
decision of the Croatian National Sabor.
The Yugoslav side, on the other hand, insists that all Serbs be
released from Croatian prisons, notwithstanding the nature of the
crime they had committed or their citizenship.
Head of the Croatian negotiation team, Ivan Grujic, told reporters
that participants at the meeting had exchanged documentation on a
number of missing persons, and that they had agreed on handing over
the mortal remains of certain identified persons.
The teams agreed to suggest to relevant bodies to mark the locations
where persons killed in conflicts had been buried so they could be
found when exhumation begins.
The Croatian side has evidence to prove that about 300 people from
the Croatian Danube river region had been buried in cemeteries in
Sremska Mitrovica, Nis, Begejevci, Stajicevo and Novi Sad.
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