Jeremic: Ceku's release strong blow to international law
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic assessed on Thursday that Agim Ceku's release represented a strong blow to international law.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, June 26, 2009
Jeremic said that the news on Ceku's release had caused huge disappointment, and that such a decision had brought harm to the friendship and the relations between the two countries (Serbia and Bulgaria).
State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice Slobodan Homen said that the decision of the Bulgarian authorities to release Ceku from custody was a political decision.
Homen said that "politics has once again prevailed over international law," and reminded that Ceku had been accused of war crimes which were not statute-barred.
The state secretary is confident that "sooner or later, Ceku will face Serbian judicial bodies."
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Kosovo government Hajredin Kuci said in Pristina that "international factors" had been engaged in the release of Ceku, but did not give out any more details.
Serbia's Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for Ceku over a number of war crimes that were committed in Kosovo during armed clashes in 1999.
