SARAJEVO, May 7 (Hina) - The arrest of the three most wanted war crimes indictees, including Croatia's Ante Gotovina, is the precondition for most of the remaining war crimes trials to be transferred from the Hague tribunal to
national courts, the U.S. ambassador for war crimes issues, Pierre Richard Prosper, has said.
SARAJEVO, May 7 (Hina) - The arrest of the three most wanted war crimes
indictees, including Croatia's Ante Gotovina, is the precondition for
most of the remaining war crimes trials to be transferred from the
Hague tribunal to national courts, the U.S. ambassador for war crimes
issues, Pierre Richard Prosper, has said.#L#
The fact that Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic as well
as Gotovina continue to be at large represents the main obstacle to
the progress of the entire region, which is why these cases have to be
resolved as soon as possible, Prosper was quoted in the Friday issue
of the Slobodna Bosna weekly as saying.
Prosper said the United States felt that if the three men were
extradited, most of the remaining war crimes cases could be tried
before domestic courts.
He stressed he believed the moment when the problem of the three most
wanted war criminals would be resolved was near, and that Europe's
doors would then be wide open.
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