BELGRADE, THE HAGUE, 09. MARCH 2017 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected a request to revise the ruling in the case of Bosnia’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia. The reason is the disputed legitimacy of Sarajevo’s legal representative, Serbia’s state broadcaster RTS reported. Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina Mladen Ivanic, who represents Serbs in the tripartite body, confirmed the news. ICJ’s 2007 ruling found that genocide had been committed in Srebrenica, but that Serbia was not guilty of participation or complicity. Earlier, EuroBlic reported that the explanation of the court’s decision noted a lack of consent from all members of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina to name Sakib Softic as the head of the revision process. This newspaper said that denying Softic the right to speak before the ICJ on behalf of Bosnia-Herzegovina “probably means that the court will reject the revision request itself, considering that accepting the agent (Softic) was a precondition for a possible court process.”
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