We can wait a few months . Regardless of what the President may say today, the obligation to transfer is not negotiable . The Yugoslav authorities chief negotiator in the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, Cedomir Jovanovic, confirmed that we are obliged to fulfill certain international obligations, among which are those to the Hague tribunal . The European Union s reaction, on the other hand, was much more lenient towards Belgrade. The EU Security Commissioner, Javier Solana, stated that the EU would not exert any pressure on Belgrade to extradite ex-President Slobodan Milosevic to face war crimes charges.
Nobody condones war crimes or any other in which human life is lost.
However, to place only the Serbs on trial for war crimes is not only unfair but also prejudicial and hypocritical. Legal systems are not supposed to show bias, not in civilised countries anyway. This is why their campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 was tantamount to criminal negligence. Forcing the Serbs to hand over Milosevic to a court which is blatantly a puppet of the USA in a foreign country is a notion so ridiculous as to be laughable. Let The Hague investigate the crimes committed by all the other players in this arena, and this includes NATO and those of its leaders responsible for the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by this instrument of terror in the Balkans.