Eurasia Press & News
War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic, on Monday in Belgrade met with U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Cameron Munter, to discuss the issue of a US Citizen suspected of war crimes since the World War II.
Vukcevic commented on the meeting as very constructive, and said they discussed many concrete issues.
The prosecutor told journalists, that he and Munter had discussed the issue of suspected Nazi war criminal Peter Egner, now a U.S. citizen wanted for crimes committed in Serbia during the Second World War, trafficking of organs taken from kidnapped Kosovo Serbs, the Bytyqi case of three U.S. citizens of Albanian origin killed in Serbia in 1999, as well as the establishment of cooperation between the American and the Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor.
Vukcevic said he expected Egner to be extradited to Serbia.
The prosecutor also said he asked Munter that his country “use the reputation it enjoys in the international community so that the crimes committed in Kosovo and Metohija could be thoroughly investigated, with the help of EULEX”.
Munter said after the talks, that he appreciated the efforts Vukcevic and his team made, and noticed that Vukcevic did his job in a professional and impartial manner, which, as he put it, was an example of courageousness in the region.
The Beta news agency reported that Munter commended the Serbian prosecutor’s efforts in cooperating with the Hague for the sake of Serbia’s EU ascension path and the overall principle of justice.
Munter was quoted as saying: Serbia has made “great progress” in that cooperation.
