The working group is to be established after funds necessary for the organization of the conference are ensured. Objective 2: Proceeding upon letters of request of the Republic of Serbia sent to the states in the region is improved through joint action of the Office of War Crimes Prosecutor and the Ministry of Justice, and the number of cases in which the evidence is exchanged between prosecutors’ offices through regional cooperation is increased. Activities: The Office of War Crimes Prosecutor will initiate the continuation of the Palić Process with the presence of international observers, as well as regular quarterly meetings between regional prosecutors to discuss specific submitted cases and issues arising in regional cooperation in relation to those cases, with the presence of the representatives of international organizations. Time limit: Continuously, commencing from Quarter 1 of 2016 Report: Activity is successfully implemented. The OWCP remains committed to the enhancement of regional cooperation. In the of such commitment, the War Crimes Prosecutor initiated bilateral meetings with regional prosecution services’ chief prosecutors. The first in a series of such meetings was with the Croatian State Prosecutor, held in Zagreb on 27 July 2017. A meeting with the BH Acting Prosecutor was held in Belgrade on 02 October 2017. Those meetings were dedicated to the harmonization of views regarding future regional cooperation. A bilateral meeting with the Montenegrin Specil Prosecutor has been scheduled for 14 December 2017. On 27 October 2017, a UNDP-facilitated meeting of regional prosecutors was organized in Belgrade. The next meeting dedicated to the enhancement of regional cooperation, which has been scheduled for March 2018, could be an opportunity for the War Crimes Prosecutor to initiate steps towards the unification of judicial practices. However, the War Crimes Prosecutor cannot initiate the creation of a unified regional database involving all trials addressing war crimes in the former Yugoslav territory, given that the creation of such a database should be linked to courts rather than to prosecution services. Virtually on a daily basis, the OWCP responds to requests for international legal assistance sought by competent prosecution services from countries in the region. The Act on International Legal Assistance, as well as the existing
The working group is to be established after funds necessary for the organization of the conference are ensured. Objective 2: Proceeding upon letters of request of the Republic of Serbia sent to the states in the region is improved through joint action of the Office of War Crimes Prosecutor and the Ministry of Justice, and the number of cases in which the evidence is exchanged between prosecutors’ offices through regional cooperation is increased. Activities: The Office of War Crimes Prosecutor will initiate the continuation of the Palić Process with the presence of international observers, as well as regular quarterly meetings between regional prosecutors to discuss specific submitted cases and issues arising in regional cooperation in relation to those cases, with the presence of the representatives of international organizations. Time limit: Continuously, commencing from Quarter 1 of 2016 Report: Activity is successfully implemented. The OWCP remains committed to the enhancement of regional cooperation. In the of such commitment, the War Crimes Prosecutor initiated bilateral meetings with regional prosecution services’ chief prosecutors. The first in a series of such meetings was with the Croatian State Prosecutor, held in Zagreb on 27 July 2017. A meeting with the BH Acting Prosecutor was held in Belgrade on 02 October 2017. Those meetings were dedicated to the harmonization of views regarding future regional cooperation. A bilateral meeting with the Montenegrin Specil Prosecutor has been scheduled for 14 December 2017. On 27 October 2017, a UNDP-facilitated meeting of regional prosecutors was organized in Belgrade. The next meeting dedicated to the enhancement of regional cooperation, which has been scheduled for March 2018, could be an opportunity for the War Crimes Prosecutor to initiate steps towards the unification of judicial practices. However, the War Crimes Prosecutor cannot initiate the creation of a unified regional database involving all trials addressing war crimes in the former Yugoslav territory, given that the creation of such a database should be linked to courts rather than to prosecution services. Virtually on a daily basis, the OWCP responds to requests for international legal assistance sought by competent prosecution services from countries in the region. The Act on International Legal Assistance, as well as the existing
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