Serbia: Documents Not Withheld, But Censored

The statement fits into the attempt of the U.S. media to challenge the Tribunal's verdict, thinks Serbia's legal representative.

Serbia's main legal representative before the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, Radoslav Stojanovic, said that the statements made by former representative of the prosecution in the case against Slobodan Milosevic, Geoffrey Nice, were "utterly ridiculous." 

As the Serbian daily newspaper Blic reports, Stojanovic thinks that Nice is "twisting" the things he is well acquainted with and he said that parts of the documents were censored for the public, but not for the Tribunal and the prosecution.

The conspiracy of the American media 

"The prosecution and the Hague Tribunal judges can read those parts and carry on the proceedings based on what those censored parts of the documents state. In such cases, trials are closed to the public," said Stojanovic. 

Geoffrey Nice's statement fits into the attempt of some American media, primarily The New York Times, to challenge the verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal, thinks Stojanovic. 

Review is possible only if new documents are found  

Such writing and political insinuations will not affect the International Criminal Tribunal. 

"Public statements appear as part of the process of resolving the Kosovo issue and they constitute a pressure on Serbia," Stojanovic continued, saying that there is a good chance of a review of the conflict before the International Criminal Tribunal. A review is only possible if a new document is discovered, said Stojanovic.