"I would like to know if and how documents that were submitted to one court were not used by the other court. We would all like to know that, because the ICJ ruling (in the case of Bosnia's genocide lawsuit against the FRY) has prompted debates in Croatia, and particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina," Sanader said on Thursday when asked if Croatia would insist that Serbia fulfil its obligation of full cooperation with the ICTY.
The New York Times on Monday ran an article saying that during the trial before the ICJ in The Hague, Serbia had concealed some of the key evidence of its role in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992-1995, withholding from the highest UN court a part of transcripts from sessions of the Supreme Defence Council, with approval from the ICTY prosecution.
The ICJ ruled that by killing 8,000 Muslims in the eastern Bosnian municipality of Srebrenica, the Bosnian Serb army had committed genocide, but that there was lack of evidence to support the allegation that Bosnian Serb forces had acted on instructions from Serbia or under its effective control.
The verdict caused considerable surprise, because details about the subordination of Bosnian Serb forces to the Army of the FRY had been established in many cases before the ICTY, the newspaper reported.
Croatia sued the FRY for violations of the UN Convention on Genocide before the ICJ six years after Bosnia did so in 1993.