SARAJEVO, April 14 (Hina) - Senior Bosnian officials on Wednesday signed in Sarajevo a joint declaration confirming their readiness to fully cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and bring to justice all
war crimes indictees.
SARAJEVO, April 14 (Hina) - Senior Bosnian officials on Wednesday
signed in Sarajevo a joint declaration confirming their readiness to
fully cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia and bring to justice all war crimes indictees.#L#
The declaration, formulated by the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
was signed by the President of the Presidency, Sulejman Tihic, the
presidents of the Croat-Muslim and Serb entities, Niko Lozancic and
Dragan Cavic respectively, the chairman of the country's Council of
Ministers, Adnan Terzic, the presidents of entity parliaments, Muhamed
Ibrahimovic and Dragan Kalinic, and the entities' premiers.
"Working with commitment on the creation of conditions for integration
into Euro-Atlantic associations, the bodies of authority of
Bosnia-Herzegovina and its entities express their political will and
determination to cooperate fully with the ICTY. We undertake to invest
maximum effort to bring to justice all war crimes suspects and call on
all suspects to surrender voluntarily to the Hague-based tribunal,"
reads the declaration.
The declaration is signed at a time when Bosnia-Herzegovina is
expecting a decision from NATO member-countries on whether it will be
invited to join NATO's Partnership for Peace programme at a summit in
Istanbul.
US Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Clifford Bond has recently warned
that it is very possible that Bosnia will not be invited to
Partnership for Peace at the Istanbul summit because it has not met
the basic political condition, namely arrested Radovan Karadzic, and
that responsibility for that lies both with the state and the Bosnian
Serb authorities.
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