Minutes from the Conference Processing War Crimes in BiH – Achievements and Challenges (June, 2006)

Minutes from the Conference Processing War Crimes in BiH – Achievements and Challenges; UNDP/ Center for Education of Judges and Prosecutors – June 1 – 2, 2006 UNITIC, Sarajevo Conference

Recommendations:

1. Creation of a national strategy and system of support to an efficient processing of war crimes, which would include technical and material assistance to courts and prosecutor's offices; 

2. Improve cooperation between entity courts and the Court of BiH with the objective of exchanging information and resolving the issue of competence which was discussed during the conference; 

3. Participants expressed support to the continuation of judicial reform, in particular to further efforts in the development of legal framework for processing war crimes and expert and administrative-technical capacities for dealing with war crime cases in courts and prosecutors' offices; 

4. Work on establishing a mechanism for making the ICTY data bases accessible for BiH courts and prosecutors' offices; 

5. Continuous education and training in the field of war crimes processing.