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Serbian Minister Says Arrest of Gen Mladic "Obligation to State, People"2006-07-26BBC Monitoring EuropeanText of report by Serbian radio on 25 July [Presenter] Serbian Interior Minister Dragan Jocic and Serbian Defence Minister Zoran Stankovic confirmed today that the application of the Action Plan, which is supposed to conclude cooperation with the Hague Tribunal [International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - ICTY], has practically already begun. Here is Ida Maricic with more details. [Maricic] Today marks 11 years since the ICTY raised indictments against former [Bosnian] Serb Republic [RS] President Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the former Serb Republic army commander, who are still at large even today. Interior Minister Dragan Jocic said finding Ratko Mladic was an obligation to the state and to the people. [Jocic] The Action Plan has to get its operative form and I think this is only a question of days, by the end of the week for sure because the people taking part in the body that has been provided by the Action Plan will form their operative groups. [Maricic] Serbian Defence Minister Zoran Stankovic has confirmed that practically the implementation of the plan has already started. [Stankovic] The Action Plan is being further elaborated in its details, this is a general framework of the plan, and now it is being further elaborated by the different services and agencies in charge of its implementation. The Military Security Agency [VBA] will continue to work as it has worked so far. [Maricic] ICTY main prosecutor's spokesman Anton Nikiforov said that even though there have still been no results, the indictees will be arrested or persuaded to give themselves up. The guarantee for that is War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic, who is the coordinator of all actions and operations, a man whom we trust, and he will need some time to implement this plan, Nikiforov said. He also said that the ICTY had no concrete deadlines for the arrests. The indictments against Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic were raised on 25 July 2005 and they have been accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was expanded four months later to include the crimes in Srebrenica. Karadzic, who withdrew from public life as president of the Serb Democratic Party [SDS], was seen for the last time and photographed in Han Pijesak in 1996. In June of last year his wife Ljiljana Zelen Karadzic appealed to him on TV through Associated Press, asking him to turn himself over to the ICTY. Ratko Mladic gave his last interview to Reuters on 16 April 1999. (c) 2006 BBC Monitoring European. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.
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