EU roept Balkanlanden op om mee te werken met Joegoslavië-tribunaal (en)

The European Union reiterates that the progress made towards European integration by each of the Western Balkans countries depends on its efforts to fulfil all of the Copenhagen criteria and the stabilisation and association process requirements, including full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Recalling its declaration of 10 March 2005, the European Union welcomes the increasing number of voluntary surrenders and transfers of indictees from Serbia and Montenegro, including Kosovo, and from Bosnia and Herzegovina to the ICTY in The Hague. Continuation of that trend should lead to that all indictees continuing to evade international justice are in the end brought before the tribunal. The EU repeats that governments in the region bear a key responsibility in this process. Full cooperation with the ICTY by the Western Balkans countries continues to be an essential requirement for their further progress towards the European Union, to which the EU remains committed.