News in English     | 21.11.2018. 14:36 |

Zvizdić: To face the truth, not redefine history

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, November 21 (FENA) - Chairman of the Council of Ministers of BiH Denis Zvizdić met in Sarajevo today with delegation of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), led by President Theodor Meron.

Zvizdić thanked Meron for his professional work as the head of the Court, and for insisting on truth as the base of all processes.

"Truth is a bitter, but it is the only remedy to achieve a reconciliation process and make sure that real criminals are brought to justice. I hope Balkans will have its own Willy Brandt one day," said Zvizdić during the meeting.

He emphasized BiH has a high degree of cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, which resulted in the arrest of all defendants who were on the Hague list of war criminals.  

"Truth must remain the truth. Facing the truth, not redefining the truth, is what leads us to a more prosperous future," said Zvizdić.

Talking about priorities of BiH in the upcoming period, Zvizdić said that they refer to processing of war crime cases by the competent courts, and through monitoring of the Strategy for solving war crime cases with special focus on the A list, that is, processing most complex and high priority war crime cases.

President of IRMCT Meron informed Zvizdić that his mandate expires soon and announced that chairmanship of the IRMCT will be taken over by judge Carmel Agius. He informed Zvizdić about plans of the Mechanism to establish a group of activities which has the aim to increase possibility of access to information on the Mechanism and heritage of the ICTY in the region.  

Zvizdić and Meron also discussed assistance of the Mechanism to the national judiciary in BiH in war crime cases, further cooperation between BiH and the Mechanism, efforts to secure that war crimes are processed on a national level and establishing an information center on ICTY in states of former Yugoslavia.

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