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  1. “We hope that justice in the remaining cases, which is long overdue, will come soon. Croatia stands ready to continue to extend its full support to the Mechanism, while expecting it to complete its mandate in time.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  2. “With the aim of clarifying the fates of missing persons, steps have been taken with regard to cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, but the key is cooperation with Serbia. Unfortunately, Serbia still shows no readiness to open up its full archival records. Cooperation in addressing this issue is one of the key elements for further discussion between Croatia and Serbia and is an important criterion in the context of the negotiations on Serbia's accession into the European Union. In conclusion, I would like to reiterate Croatia's firm support for the remaining work of the Mechanism. While the conclusion of the appeals proceedings in the Karadzie case represents an important step forward in the completion of its mandate, some of the most accountable have yet to receive a final verdict to be brought against them.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  3. “Croatia's position in the matter is clear: the State on which territory crimes were committed has primacy in prosecution. For us, Serbia's position that crimes committed on the territory of Croatia would fall under Serbian jurisdiction is unacceptable. Bilateral meetings were also held between the Ministers of Justice of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina this year. The search for missing persons is a humanitarian imperative to which we attach the utmost priority. Croatia welcomes the adoption of resolution 2474 (2019) on missing persons in armed conflict last month as the first Security Council resolution of its kind fully dedicated to this issue. We commend the Council's commitment in this regard. Today, in Croatia, 1,892 persons remainunaccounted for from the war period.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  4. “Croatia places great emphasis on continuing constructive judicial cooperation in war matters with other States of the region. Meaningful cooperation is not a one-way process, and we expect other sides to show their willingness to actively engage. As reported earlier by the Serbian Minister of Justice, last year the Croatian and Serbian Ministers of Justice agreed to establish two joint commissions. One would work on a bilateral agreement on cooperation with regard to the prosecution of war crimes, and the other on the exchange of lists of persons accused or convicted of war crimes. We cannot say that we are overly satisfied with the way things have functioned over the past year. The commissions did engage in work but have not yet achieved any significant progress.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  5. “Repeated challenges by Serbia, including at the highest levels, to thejudgments ofthe ICTY and the Mechanism, together with the recent rally of the Serbian Radical Party led by convicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj in the town of Hrtkovci - the symbol of suffering of Croats of Vojvodina - and its overall unwillingness to prosecute for command responsibility - meaning those most responsible for crimes - raise the question of whether the country has the sincere intention of dealing with the past. We strongly support the Western Balkans countries' perspective on attaining membership in the European Union. The accession process is based on clear and well-known criteria, and full cooperation with the Mechanism is certainly among them.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  6. “Petar Jojic and Vjerica Radeta, requesting Serbia to transfer the accused to the Mechanism without delay. We underline once again the need for Serbia to fully cooperate with the Mechanism, including by fully accepting and implementing all of its rulings and decisions. That is also clearly stated in the European Commission's 2019 report on Serbia, as well as in the 18 June 2019 conclusions of the European Council.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  7. “In addition, based on the evidence set forth in other ICTY judgments, we believe that, in the appeals process, Karadzie's involvement in a comprehensive joint criminal enterprise in Bosnia and Herzegovina should also be linked to the top political and military echelons of the then-Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic. With regard to the Mechanism's ongoing work, Croatia stresses the importance of the completion of the case on appeal of Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladic' and the trial case Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic'. We also encourage the Mechanism to maximize its efforts in this regard. We note the recent decision by the Mechanism's single judge to revoke the referral order in the contempt of court proceedings in the case Prosecutor v.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  8. “Nevertheless, we hope that assignment of personal responsibility to Karadzic' for some of the most horrific crimes committed after the Second World War, such as the genocide in Srebrenica, provide at least a minimum of satisfaction to the victims and their families. The verdict is a clear warning to all those who continue to glorify war criminals that their policies are utterly unacceptable and that they have been internationally characterized as criminal. We regret that the Appeals Chamber has not established the responsibility of KaradZie as the perpetrator of genocide in other municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina besides Srebrenica, which we consider to be an inseparable element of his criminal policy.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  9. “Croatia welcomed the final judgment of one of the main ideologues and executors of a policy of brutal aggression and ethnic cleansing, who did not hesitate to commit genocide or other serious international crimes against Bosniaks and Croats in order to create so-called Greater Serbia. The Appeals Chamber found that crimes of unprecedented scale were committed through four joint criminal enterprises aimed at permanently removing Croats and Bosniaks from certain areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are aware that there is no punishment that will ever fully compensate for the evil that was done and that nothing can bring back the lives of innocent victims.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  10. “On this day - the Day of International Criminal Justice - Croatia takes the opportunity to reiterate its support for international justice and the prosecution of the most serious violations of international law before international and hybrid tribunals, as well as domestic courts, with full respect for fair trial standards. The Mechanism has made important headway since the previous Security Council briefing in December 201 8 (see S/PV.8416). The Mechanism's Appeals Chamber delivered its judgment by which Radovan Karadzie was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  11. “Although the Mechanism was established to carry out the essential functions of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) after their closure, it also plays an important role in the fight against the culture of impunity and represents an instrument for ensuring accountability. As we have said on many occasions, accountability is a prerequisite for peace, stability, development and the effective protection of human rights because there is no lasting peace without justice and no justice as long as there is impunity. Both the ICTY and the ICTR represent a milestone in the development of international criminal law, having paved the way for the creation of the International Criminal Court, which Croatia strongly supports.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  12. “I would like to begin by acknowledging the work of Peru as Chair of the Council's Informal Working Group on International Tribunals. The honourable President of the International Residual Mechanism of the Criminal Tribunals, Judge Agius, as well as its Prosecutor, Mr. Brammertz, and I thank them for today's briefings. Allow me to pay tribute to former President of the Mechanism Judge Meron, whose leadership ensured important progress in ending impunity and pivotal achievements in the proper interpretation and application of international humanitarian law. Today we mark the Day of International Criminal Justice - a powerful reminder of the importance of international courts and tribunals created to adjudicate crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and other serious offences.”

    2019-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8576 (2019) · source

  13. “The tools for this are available and known and the expertise is vast, so we must not allow history to repeat itself because, purportedly, no one was listening the first time around.”

    2017-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7886 (2017) · source

  14. “In this regard, Croatia will also continue to strongly support the European and Euro- Atlantic perspective of Bosnia and Herzegovina and South-East Europe in general as the best impetus for safeguarding sustainable peace, development and the strengthening of institutions. The Security Council and the international community as a whole should spare no effort to bring an end to current active conflicts in Europe, in particular with a View to mitigating the grave situation in Ukraine. Simultaneously, we ought to push for the resolution of all other existing or protracted conflicts in Europe that continue to endanger international peace and security in the foreseeable future.”

    2017-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7886 (2017) · source

  15. “While the experience of South-East Europe clearly demonstrates how costly the failure not to act on time and in a decisive manner can be, at the same time it also shows that in post-conflict peacebuilding, regional organizations can play an important stabilizing role. Such is, for instance, the engagement of the European Union and its cooperation with the United Nations in an effective and calibrated burden-sharing in Bosnia- Herzegovina through Operation Althea of the European Union-led peacekeeping force. As a signatory to the Dayton Peace Agreement, Croatia bears a special responsibility for stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The genuine institutional equality of all three constituent peoples and all citizens is crucial to the long-term stability of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will contributie to the security of South-East Europe.”

    2017-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7886 (2017) · source

  16. “To this day, it remains one of the most successful operations in the history of the United Nations. Croatia stands ready to share its experiences concerning all aspects of that fruitful endeavour, together with its know-how in confidence-building, post-conflict stabilization, reconstruction and reconciliation. European post-conflict experiences demonstrate the importance of institution-building and the strengthening of the rule of law and the administrative framework of the State. This is essential for fostering peace and creating conditions for economic prosperity and job creation. Only then can old animosities be fully replaced with cross-border cooperation and true reconciliation. The history of the European Union, a member State of which Croatia became in 2013, serves as a shining example in this regard.”

    2017-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7886 (2017) · source

  17. “The United Nations has been haunted by its failures in Rwanda, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, when its peacekeeping forces failed to prevent atrocities and the genocide of civilian populations they purported to protect. It became clear that the United Nations could no longer follow the traditional concept of protection and that the United Nations troops needed to actively defend civilians from armed attacks when necessary. However, a good example of creative diplomacy and a well-designed peacekeeping mandate can be seen in the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium mission in Croatia, which led to the peaceful reintegration of the occupied Croatian region of Eastern Slavonia into Croatia.”

    2017-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7886 (2017) · source

  18. “At the same time, that part of Europe was also the place of the largest peacekeeping operations in the history of the United Nations. Several key lessons learned from that period can be summarized as follows. First, a clear and precise mandate is the prerequisite for the success of any operation. Second, the strict observation of international law is crucial, in particular with regard to the inviolability of internationally recognized borders. Third, an engaged preventive diplomacy and a timely response to early warnings - which in the case of the former Yugoslavia utterly failed - are pivotal. Fourth and finally, a tailor-made approach to complex sanctions regimes and their principled implementation can go hand in hand with the above-mentioned elements of the equation.”

    2017-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7886 (2017) · source

  19. “While we are facing new challenges such as mass migration and climate change, existing disputes and unresolved or protracted conflicts are hindering Europe's development and endangering its stability. The obvious and many-times-uttered question arises here too: what can we, as States and the international community assembled in this Organization, undertake to prevent, mitigate and resolve such occurrences and situations, building upon past practices and implementing lessons learned? Answers may be many, but allow me to share with the Council Croatia's views and experience in that regard. During the 1990s, Southeast Europe was the unfortunate stage of armed conflicts not seen on the continent since the end of the Second World War.”

    2017-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7886 (2017) · source

  20. “At the outset, I would like to express the deepest condolences of the Government of Croatia to the Russian Federation for the passing of His Excellency Vitaly Churkin, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. I thank Ukraine for initiating this important and well-timed debate. Croatia aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of the European Union. I shall give additional remarks in my national capacity. Europe came a long way in overcoming the horrible legacy of two world wars that originated on European soil. Today, former battlefields have been turned into areas of close cooperation, peace and prosperity. Nevertheless, some parts of the European continent are still not immune to conflict and strife, and that leads to human suffering and instability.”

    2017-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7886 (2017) · source