On 26 February 2007 the International Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro).
On this occasion the Presidency calls upon Belgrade to use today's judgment as a further opportunity to distance itself from the crimes committed by the Milosevic regime in the name of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The Presidency urges all sides to respect the judgment, and hopes that it will help close a painful chapter in the history of the region.
The Presidency hopes that the democratic forces in Serbia, which gained an impressive majority in the parliamentary elections, form a reform-oriented government, which overcomes the past, at the earliest opportunity.
