Balkan Cooperation on War Crimes Issues

The Congressional Research Service, a department of the Library of Congress, conducts research and analysis for Congress on a broad range of national and international policy issues. Some of the CRS work is carried out specifically for individual members of Congress or their staff and is confidential. However, there is also much CRS compiled material which is considered public but is not formally published on the CRS website.

For that reason a number of other organisations try to keep track of these publications and make them publicly available via their own websites. Currently, ESO uses the following websites to track these reports and allow access to them in ESO:

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In some cases hyperlinks allows you to access all versions of a report, including the latest. Note that many reports are periodically updated.Balkan cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague remains an issue of ongoing U.S. and international concern. By January 2008, only four indicted individuals were still at large, although two of them included top wartime Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Gen.

Ratko Mladic, both under indictment since 1995 for genocide and crimes against humanity. Full cooperation with ICTY has long been a key prerequisite to further progress toward a shared goal for the western Balkan countries: closer association with and eventual membership in the European Union and NATO. This policy of conditionality has affected Serbia the most, but also other western Balkan countries.

Some critics charge that conditionality policy has outlived its usefulness, while others insist that the remaining indicted suspects — especially Mladic and Karadzic — face trial before ICTY closes its doors in 2010 or 2011. The second session of the 110th Congress is likely to consider recurring legislation on linking U.S. assistance to Serbia with ICTY cooperation. This report will be updated as events warrant. For related information, see CRS Report RS21686, Conditions on U.S. Aid to Serbia , by Steven Woehrel.

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Federation of American Scientists (FAS): Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports https://fas.org/sgp/crs/index.html

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