International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

BELGRADE - The Serbian government has sent a letter to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), seeking from the tribunal to furnish it with information about the medical condition of Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj and former Republic of Serbian Krajina president Goran Hadzic, given that the defendants agree with that.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia will completely shut down in 2017 after delivering its last war crimes ruling, said the court’s president Theodor Meron.

Defense: No evidence of genocide

THE HAGUE -- Defense of Radovan Karadzic, the American Peter Robinson, had asked the court to dismiss the second charge of the indictment dealing with genocide.

BELGRADE - A delegation of the Council of Europe (CE) Directorate for Policy Planning has come to Serbia to prepare a report on the country's cooperation and efforts to fulfil obligations related to statute and met with a delegation of the Interior Ministry (MUP).

BELGRADE - Serbian Prosecutor for War Crimes Vladimir Vukcevic and Bosnia-Herzegovina's Chief Prosecutor Goran Salihovic agreed in Sarajevo on Thursday to exchange liaison officers who would be appointed to the other prosecutor's office as representatives of their institutions.

THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has requested that the prosecution's motion to re-open its case to present evidence about the Tomasica mass grave be denied as it would cause prejudice to his defence at this stage of the trial, the ICTY said in a statement on Thursday.

War Crimes Prosecution and MICT sign MoU

BELGRADE -- The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution and the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU).

The MICT is the successor to the ad hoc Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) based in The Hague.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met Monday with the prosecutor of the newly established Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) Hassan Jallow, and underlined that more convicted Serbian citizens should serve their sentence in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor's Office and the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), which is the successor to the ad hoc Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) based in The Hague, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Belgrade on Monday.

BiH war crimes arrests lauded by ICTY