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Serbia-Montenegro accepts cooperation with The Hague in full

Belgrade/New York, 24 November 2004

Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Zoran Loncar, a member of the National Council for Cooperation with The Hague Tribunal, said at today’s session of the UN Security Council that Serbia-Montenegro accepts its obligation to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in full.

Zoran Loncar

Reporting on Serbia-Montenegro’s cooperation with The Hague tribunal, Loncar pointed out that the state union and the Serbian government have been taking steps to meet all obligations towards the court, adding that the country has so far met all requests concerning the handover of important documents and that it has freed a large number of witnesses from local prosecution under state secrets laws.

He recalled that 24 persons indicted for war crimes have been arrested and handed over to The Hague since January 2003. Also, according to him, the Serbian government has launched an investigation into the disappearance of Hague indictee Goran Hadzic to find out who gave him the confidential information that enabled him to escape.

Loncar informed members of the Security Council on yesterday’s meeting of Serbia’s and the state union’s top officials and added that all relevant political forces in Serbia and Serbia-Montenegro are fully aware of the obligation to cooperate with The Hague tribunal.

He stressed that further measures will be taken to improve that cooperation and expressed conviction that concrete results will be visible soon.