The Croatian official, who took part in a round table discussion on the implementation of the memorandum and importance of regional cooperation in the prosecution of war crimes, said that prosecutors in the region were cooperating on numerous cases of war crimes although this was often being done outside the public eye.
"There are no restrictions in cooperation, but we do not go public with that kind of information for tactical reasons," Cule said, underlining cooperation in the case of 1991 war crimes committed in Split's port Lora.
Asked about the case of independent MP Branimir Glavas, who is suspected of war crimes, Cule said that proceedings against Glavas would have to continue sooner or later, regardless of their current suspension.
"Strengthening trust, friendship and professionalism is a key to opening the door to justice and prosecuting war crimes committed in the region," Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said.
He added that cooperation among prosecutors in the region was a sign of respect for 150,000 victims of the recent wars. Asked about the recent decision of the Serbian Supreme Court to quash the trial verdict against 14 people indicted for war crimes at the Ovcara farm outside Vukovar in 1991, Vukcevic said that the decision could be used as an argument in favour of extending the term of the Hague war crimes tribunal.
Marinko Jurcevic, Bosnia-Herzegovina's War Crimes Prosecutor, said that there was lack of prosecutors in the country and that there were as many as 13,000 people charged with war crimes.
Hans Ohla Urstad, head of the OSCE Mission in Serbia, which helped organise the event, said that the need to exchange evidence was one of the outstanding issues which had to be resolved in order to prosecute unpunished war crimes.