SARAJEVO,Bosnia (September 10,2007) - The Russian President Boris Yeltsin blocked the arrest of the former political leader of the Serbians living in Bosnia,Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic in 1997, and the U.S. President Bill Clinton persuaded France's Jacques Chirac not to insist on it, a new book says.
Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), recounts in her book "Peace and Punishment" how the U.S. president Bill Clinton persuaded French president Jacques Chirac not to push the issue.
Hartmann says they met at the Elysee Palace in Paris in May 1997, 17 months after the peace accords that ended the 1992-95 Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia.
The French president Chirac, fuming over the capture of two French pilots by the genocidal Serbian formations in 1995, wanted to expunge the affront.
"Clinton stressed that the operation could not be undertaken without informing the Russians. Chirac was opposed. But Clinton insisted, and Chirac finally gave in. Karadzic remains at large," Hartmann writes.
Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic was indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and severe breaches of the Geneva Conventions comitted during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.
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