Serbia: Djindjic to West: Don't blame us for your mistakes

(11/12/2001)STOCKHOLM (December 11) - It's "unfair" of the West to ask Belgrade to track down Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic when the US had five years and 50,000 soldiers to apprehend the indicted former Bosnian Serb leader and his military chief, Zoran Djindjic said today, reported B92. The Serbian prime minister, fielding questions on the whereabouts of the Hague's two most wanted, insisted they are not under the protection of the Yugoslav Army as Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte recently claimed. "They are not protected. Where they are, I don't know," Djindjic told reporters after meeting Swedish government officials in Stockholm. Karadzic and Mladic "were in Bosnia for five years, from 1995 to 2000, and in these five years, we had 50,000 American soldiers in Bosnia. After these five years, they asked us to find out where they are. I don't think it's so fair," he said. Djindjic said Belgrade had other problems to deal with, citing "economic problems after ten years of isolation and war" as well as Kosovo, Montenegro, south Serbia and Macedonia.

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