ZAGREB, March 5 (Hina) - The Igman Initiative, a co-ordinating body of non-government organisations from countries established in the area of the former Yugoslavia (SFRY), on Wednesday proposed that their national parliaments should
be asked to adopt a declaration on full and unconditional co-operation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
ZAGREB, March 5 (Hina) - The Igman Initiative, a co-ordinating body
of non-government organisations from countries established in the
area of the former Yugoslavia (SFRY), on Wednesday proposed that
their national parliaments should be asked to adopt a declaration
on full and unconditional co-operation with the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague. #L#
"Co-operation with the ICTY is developing very slowly with great
resistance and obstruction and without sincere efforts to gain
support in public for this co-operation, particularly with regard
to extraditing war criminals," notes a drat declaration from the
sixth session of the Igman Initiative held in Tuzla on March 1 & 2.
The declaration, sent to Hina on Wednesday by the Croatian Civic
Committee for Human Rights (GOLJP), points out that co-operation
with the Hague tribunal was an international obligation that was
accepted by all signatory countries of the Dayton Accord.
More than one hundred members of the initiative from Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro also believe that
bringing indictees for war crimes before international justice is
the surest way that responsibility can be individualised.
Unconditional co-operation with the ICTY is a vital pre-condition
to renew confidence between the nations in this region, to
normalise relations and to have regional co-operation, the draft
declaration said.
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