Vulin on ICTY ruling: Justice for all - except for Serbs

The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) verdict in the case against six wartime Bosnian Croat leaders "will affect relations between the two countries and the two peoples."

Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said this on Wednesday, in the first reaction by a Serbian official.

Earlier in the day, the ICTY Appeals Chamber upheld the sentences for all six former senior officials of the so-called Croat Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia - a Croat entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s - and the Croat Defense Council (HVO) accused in the Prlic et al. case, handing them a total of 111 years in prison for their participation in a joint criminal enterprise led by the leadership of Croatia.

RTS reported that Vulin said Serbia's "highest interest" was peace and stability, and the Serb people enjoying all the rights guaranteed to them.

"For the Serbs, the most important thing...