"This does not change or alter in any way the need to come to terms with the past, with the legacy of which Slobodan
Milosevic has been a part," Plassnik said on Saturday.
"This will be one of the big challenges ahead for the region in order to reach what is the ultimate goal we are all working on, and this is lasting peace and reconciliation," she said at a news conference during an EU foreign minister meeting.
Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic said today it was a pity that Milosevic, who died in U.N. custody in the Hague, had not been tried in his own country.
"Milosevic organised many many assassinations of people of my party, of people of my family... He ordered a few times asasination attempts against my life," Draskovic told reporters at a European Union foreign ministers' meeting.
"What can I say? I can say it's a pity he didn't face justice in Belgrade," he said.
Asked if the ICTY lost credibility given that it failed to secure adequate care for Milosevic, EU High Representative for the Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana said Milosevic had better care in prison than many of us have in our entire lives.
Solana said Milosevic's death could help Serbia turn to future.