Serbia's government on Friday removed an item from its agenda that was to deal with the delivery of documents to the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and decided to scale down its cooperation with the tribunal to a technical level, the head of the Serbian National Council for cooperation with the Hague tribunal Rasim Ljajic confirmed for Belgrade press on Friday.
Ljajic made the statement in reaction to the acquittal of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac and said that not one representative of Serbia's state bodies would participate in a conference scheduled for November 22 in Belgrade organised by the ICTY. Serbia will not be offering any logistic support to the conference, he added.
He said that a judge in the five-member Appeals Chamber who opposed the verdict, Judge Fausto Pocar, had said that he would also not take part in the conference.
The government has put the question of the political and legal repercussions of the Hague ruling to be the first point to be discussed at its next cabinet session.
"This ruling is a blow to international justice and the process of reconciliation in the region and will not contribute to normalising relations between the countries and peoples in the region of former Yugoslavia", said Ljajic
