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BANJALUKA, MARCH 21 /SRNA/ - If the documentation from the archives of the Hague Tribunal is stored in Sarajevo, there will be no possibility of controlling its possible abuse, Viktor Nuždić, Acting Director of the Republic Center for Research on War, War Crimes and Search for Missing Persons told SRNA.

Commenting on the request of the Bosniak member of the BiH Presidency Denis Bećirović for the archival material to be stored in BiH, Nuždić emphasized that the question was how the representatives of Republika Srpska would have control over the use of that documentation.

"Of course, we are skeptical when it comes to handing over the documentation to Sarajevo, because past experiences teach us that we cannot be sure in what way, to what extent, and what purposes that documentation would be used for," stated Nuždić.

Nuždić emphasizes that the position of the Republic Center is that documentation that is the property of Republika Srpska, that is, issued by the authorities of Srpska, should be returned to Srpska.

He noted that the Center once sent a request to the Hague Tribunal to open an information center in Banjaluka regarding the work of that UN court.

"Then we at the Center received the answer that we are not an adequate institution for cooperation, and that in a way we are negators of the work of the Hague Tribunal and therefore we are not an adequate partner when opening the information center," Nuždić stressed.

The member of the BiH Presidency Denis Bećirović has spoken today with the UN Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts, Abubacarr Tambadou, who informed him about the closing of the office of this court in BiH.

The BiH Presidency announced that Bećirović informed Tambadou that he sent a letter to the UN Secretary General, the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts and the President of the UN General Assembly in which he requested for the archival material of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to be stored in BiH. /end/nm

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