Court Rejects Karadzic Subpoena of Greek President

By A. Papapostolou 

The UN’s Yugoslav war crimes court has rejected a call by Bosnian Serb former leader Radovan Karadzic to subpoena Greek President Carolos Papoulias to testify at his genocide trial.
“The requirements for the issuance of a subpoena have not been met,” the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said in a document made public on Tuesday. “The chamber denies the motion.”

Now 67, Karadzic faces 10 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war, which left 100,000 dead and displaced 2.2 million others.
Papoulias was Greek foreign minister between 1993 and 1996 and Karadzic had said he was “one of the few international interlocutors whom the Bosnian Serbs trusted and with whom they could speak confidentially and candidly.”

Many Greeks supported Serbs during the conflict because of their common Orthodox Christianity. Karadzic was given a triumphal welcome when he visited Athens during the war in June 1993.
He said at the time that the Serbs only had two allies: “The Greeks and God.”
(source: the news)