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Turkish MFA welcomes arrest of Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic
ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said Thursday that they welcomed the arrest of the main orchestrator of the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic, who had been sought for by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), on May 26.
In a statement released, the MFA said that "following the adoption of a resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre on March 30, 2010, by the Serbian Parliament and the attendance of President Tadic of Serbia to the ceremony held to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the massacre together with Prime Minister Erdogan and the capture of the war criminal Radovan Karadzic in 2008, the arrest of Mladic constitutes a step forward towards strengthening of peace and stability in the Balkans and especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina".
"Handing over the war criminal Ratko Mladic promptly to ICTY to be tries, will make an important moral contribution to reduce the pain inflicted during the Bosnian War, which is the darkest and the bloodiest page of the European history after the Second World War. This will also constitute a new and concrete proof of the fact that those who commit crimes against humanity can not evade justice," the MFA also said.
In a statement released, the MFA said that "following the adoption of a resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre on March 30, 2010, by the Serbian Parliament and the attendance of President Tadic of Serbia to the ceremony held to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the massacre together with Prime Minister Erdogan and the capture of the war criminal Radovan Karadzic in 2008, the arrest of Mladic constitutes a step forward towards strengthening of peace and stability in the Balkans and especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina".
"Handing over the war criminal Ratko Mladic promptly to ICTY to be tries, will make an important moral contribution to reduce the pain inflicted during the Bosnian War, which is the darkest and the bloodiest page of the European history after the Second World War. This will also constitute a new and concrete proof of the fact that those who commit crimes against humanity can not evade justice," the MFA also said.
