RECOM Reconciliation Network

17.10.2010.

The Seventh Regional Forum for Transitional Justice, Zagreb, Croatia

The Seventh Regional Forum for Transitional Justice was held in Zagreb on October 16th and 17th, 2010. The opening speech was given by Ivo Josipović, the Croatian President at the time, with former Croatian President Stipe Mesić and Government Vice-President Slobodan Uzelac also taking part in the proceedings, along with several Croatian MPs and cabinet representatives. Apart from the plenum itself, the entire debate was conducted in four working groups deliberating, respectively, the election of RECOM members; RECOM’s powers and its relation to the judiciary; public advocacy; and RECOM’s main aims and tasks.

The Forum ended with the participants’ joint assessment that all future activities of the Regional Commission had to be based on willingness on the part of the victims, a sense of obligation on the part of the states, and the full independence of the Regional Commission, to be tasked with establishing all the facts about the war crimes perpetrated within the territory of the former Yugoslavia (RECOM).

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