{"id":12115,"date":"2024-12-09T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-09T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T16:17:24","slug":"international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A considerable number of persons accused by the ICTY have been arrested and transferred at the request of the ICTY by the competent authorities in BiH since the beginning of the operations of the ICTY, while a couple of persons surrendered voluntarily. The circumstances of a couple of arrests involving international actors, such as SFOR, have resulted in challenges by the defence in hearings before the ICTY, arguing that the arrests took place in violation of generally accepted principles of international law and fundamental rights.<span class=\"s1\"><sup>2518<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Given the unique constitutional set up of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Dayton Constitution, the obligation to cooperate must be seen in the context of the strong involvement of the international community. Realistically, with the respective Entities being unfriendly towards the idea of handing over suspects or accused persons from their respective ethnic group since the very beginning of the operation of the ICTY, SFOR \u2013 against its initial reluctance \u2013 and later EUFOR had to accept the responsibility to implement some of those obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the Bosnian authorities.<span class=\"s1\"><sup>2519 <\/sup><\/span>Therefore, the obligation to cooperate has, to some extent \u2013 and not only in the beginning of the operation of the Tribunal \u2013 been executed by the actors of the international community, i.e., SFOR\/EUFOR.<span class=\"s1\"><sup>2520<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A considerable number of persons accused by the ICTY have been arrested and transferred at the request of the ICTY by the competent authorities in BiH since the beginning of the operations of the ICTY, while a couple of persons surrendered voluntarily. The circumstances of a couple of arrests involving international actors, such as SFOR, &hellip; <a class=\"text-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities - Commentary on BiH Constitution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities - Commentary on BiH Constitution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A considerable number of persons accused by the ICTY have been arrested and transferred at the request of the ICTY by the competent authorities in BiH since the beginning of the operations of the ICTY, while a couple of persons surrendered voluntarily. The circumstances of a couple of arrests involving international actors, such as SFOR, &hellip; Read&nbsp;more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commentary on BiH Constitution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-09T16:17:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flags.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"686\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/\",\"name\":\"International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities - Commentary on BiH Constitution\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-12-09T11:10:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-09T16:17:24+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Article II \u2013 Human rights and fundamental freedoms\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"I. Article II.8 Cooperation\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Cooperation with the ICTY\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":5,\"name\":\"Cooperation on the basis of Article 29 of the ICTY Statute\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":6,\"name\":\"ICTY Arrest Warrants and Domestic Extradition Law\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":7,\"name\":\"Implementation of Arrest Warrants and Requests for Transfer\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":8,\"name\":\"International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/\",\"name\":\"UstavBiH.ba\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#organization\",\"name\":\"UstavBiH.ba\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flags.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flags.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":686,\"caption\":\"UstavBiH.ba\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities - Commentary on BiH Constitution","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities - Commentary on BiH Constitution","og_description":"A considerable number of persons accused by the ICTY have been arrested and transferred at the request of the ICTY by the competent authorities in BiH since the beginning of the operations of the ICTY, while a couple of persons surrendered voluntarily. The circumstances of a couple of arrests involving international actors, such as SFOR, &hellip; Read&nbsp;more","og_url":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/","og_site_name":"Commentary on BiH Constitution","article_modified_time":"2024-12-09T16:17:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":686,"url":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flags.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/","url":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/","name":"International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities - Commentary on BiH Constitution","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-12-09T11:10:24+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-09T16:17:24+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/international-actors-performing-cooperation-obligations-on-behalf-of-the-bih-authorities\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Article II \u2013 Human rights and fundamental freedoms","item":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"I. Article II.8 Cooperation","item":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Cooperation with the ICTY","item":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"Cooperation on the basis of Article 29 of the ICTY Statute","item":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"name":"ICTY Arrest Warrants and Domestic Extradition Law","item":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"name":"Implementation of Arrest Warrants and Requests for Transfer","item":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/icty-arrest-warrants-and-domestic-extradition-law\/implementation-of-arrest-warrants-and-requests-for-transfer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"name":"International Actors Performing Cooperation Obligations \u201con behalf\u201d of the BiH Authorities"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/","name":"UstavBiH.ba","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#organization","name":"UstavBiH.ba","url":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flags.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flags.jpg","width":1920,"height":686,"caption":"UstavBiH.ba"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12699,"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12115\/revisions\/12699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}