Vucic meets with Brammertz

BELGRADE - After a meeting with Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said there were no outstanding issues between Serbia and the IRMCT and that the two sides maintained continuous cooperation.

"At the same time, there is a need for better coordination when it comes to regional cooperation on the issues of missing persons, raising indictments and prosecuting war crimes," Vucic wrote in a Facebook post.

He added that he had had a "fair and open discussion with Prosecutor Brammertz about Serbia's cooperation with the Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, the results of a national strategy for punishing war crimes, shedding light on the fates of missing persons as well as regional judicial cooperation on these topics."

"I reiterated that our country is approaching responsibly the work with the Mechanism as well as punishment for war crimes through local legislation because justice for all victims is an important part of the region's path to reconciliation and a better future for all our citizens," Vucic noted.