WASHINGTON, June 2 (Hina) - The United States has welcomed Thursday's arrest of Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir, indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for genocide and war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 war
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as a positive step forward and has called on the authorities in Serbia and the Bosnian Serb entity to arrest the five remaining indicted fugitives, including Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic.
WASHINGTON, June 2 (Hina) - The United States has welcomed
Thursday's arrest of Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir, indicted by the UN
war crimes tribunal in The Hague for genocide and war crimes committed during
the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as a positive step forward and has
called on the authorities in Serbia and the Bosnian Serb entity to arrest the
five remaining indicted fugitives, including Bosnian Serb wartime leader
Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic. We welcome the
arrest of Zdravko Tolimir. This action was a result of cooperation between the
Republika Srpska and Serbian government authorities and certainly it's a
positive development, but more needs to be done, US State Department spokesman
Tom Casey told reporters on Friday.
Casey stressed that the US wanted to see all the remaining indictees
turned over to the Hague tribunal. He said that the two main fugitives, Mladic
and Karadzic, should face justice in the interests of determining full
accountability and a true resolution of the crisis.
Karadzic and Mladic have been on the run since 1995 when the Hague
tribunal indicted them for genocide and war crimes.