The Hague war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, has told Belgrade's Vecernje Novosti daily that there are no new conditions for Serbia and that the issue of those who harboured the tribunal's indictee Ratko Mladic is just one of the subjects being discussed as part of Serbia's cooperation with the UN court.
Speaking to the daily's edition of Tuesday ahead of a two-day visit to Belgrade, Brammertz said he visited Belgrade in September to close the chapter on the tribunal's fugitives and that now he was coming to finish a report he was due to submit to the UN Security Council around November 15.
Brammertz said he still had to write the report and hold talks in Belgrade, adding that the basic requirement had been the arrest of the fugitives and that it had been complied with.
He said he now wanted to find out how they had managed to hide for so long, but added that this was not a new requirement and that setting conditions referred to the European Union and that a question about it should be addressed to them.
Brammertz said everyday cooperation continued and that he wanted the investigation into those who had harboured the fugitives to continue, adding that he would discuss this with the president of Serbia's national council for cooperation with the Hague tribunal, Rasim Ljajic, with whom cooperation was very good.
Brammertz said the tribunal was provided with some information about those who had harboured Mladic and that he hoped to get information about those who had harboured Goran Hadzic. He added, however, that light could not be shed on years of hiding in a few weeks, and that talks on this would continue also after his mission.
