WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Hina) - A spokesman with the U.S. State Department reiterated Thursday the Administration's support to the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague (ICTY).
WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Hina) - A spokesman with the U.S. State
Department reiterated Thursday the Administration's support to the
International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague (ICTY). #L#
The spokesman, Nicholas Burns, said U.S. government strongly
supported the Tribunal and its goal -- bringing 52 indicted persons
to The Hague.
The U.S. had no doubts about the responsibility of the war
criminals No 1 and 2 -- Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and
his military commander, General Ratko Mladic --for killings of
thousands of people Srebrenica, Zepa and other parts of Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
"We are determined to bring them to justice... Sooner or later
they will make mistake," Burns said.
He also reiterated that the NATO-led Implementation Force
(IFOR) was obliged to arrest the war criminals if coming across
them. But the IFOR's main task was to patrol the zone of the cease-
fire, he recalled.
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