The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Mr Oliver Dulic spoke at the Third regional forum on the mechanisms of determining the facts of war crimes in ex-Yugoslavia.

Dulic asserted that it is the obligation, as well as a deep inner need of each individual to condemn crimes and criminals.

“Crimes must be punished not because of European integrations, but most of all because we owe it to the victims of these crimes, and we owe it to our future which we must not build on fragile foundations of denial, neglect and suppression of the truth”, Dulic said.

The Speaker of the Assembly stressed that the Republic of Serbia takes cooperation with the Hague Tribunal extremely seriously, and that the results achieved in the war crimes trials before domestic courts were far from anyone’s expectations.

“I hope two messages will reach every corner of the planet where a war conflict is brewing: the first is that there will always be someone ready to gather data on war crimes, and the other that there are no winners in war conflicts, the survivors differ only in how much they lost in them”, Dulic concluded.