News in English     | 07.11.2019. 19:20 |

Kavalec: HJPC BiH remains important partner in ensuring efficiency of judiciary

FENA Muamer Selimbegovic

SARAJEVO, November 7 (FENA) - Newly-appointed Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec said today that the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH (HJPC BiH) remains an important partner, underlining the Mission's readiness to continue supporting the Council's work.

“We believe that functioning of this institution is of crucial importance in ensuring the independence, accountability and efficiency of the judiciary,” said Ambassador Kavalec after her inaugural visit and address to the Council members, held during the break of the two-day session.

She recalled that for the past two years, the OSCE Mission has been monitoring the HJPC plenary sessions and disciplinary procedures, stating that it will continue to do so in the future.

Ambassador Kavalec emphasized that this monitoring enabled the OSCE to monitor the work of the HJPC BiH and to convey its views after identifying certain issues in its functioning.

HJPC President Milan Tegeltija also addressed at the meeting, which was not open for public, and expressed his gratitude to Ambassador Kavalec for her visit, support and encouragement she provided to the Council's work and to independent judiciary in BiH.

He said that the importance of strategic partnership and exchange of views were emphasized on both sides, including different views on certain issues and phenomena.

“Partners need to exchange views even when they have different opinions on issues. This has not happened often, but it has also happened in the past work of the OSCE and is likely to continue in the future. We hope as little as possible,” Tegeltija said.

Responding to a press inquiry regarding the consequences of not adopting Revised War Crimes Strategy in BiH, the HJPC BiH President said it would cause huge and damaging consequences and certainly slow down and prevent all war crimes from being investigated but also prosecuted.

He specified that time and 'biology' are not in favor of prosecuting war crimes, reminding that suspects and witnesses are dying.

At the same time, Tegeltija stated that Revised Strategy established mechanisms to significantly accelerate the processing of war crimes cases, and that one of the most important means distributing war crimes cases to cantonal prosecutors’ offices in BiH entities, with the focus of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH on the most serious cases.

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