Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, Rodoljub Šabić, spoke with Prof. Eric Ketelar, Ph.D. and Cecilia Aptel, members of the Advisory Committee for International Courts for War Crimes' Archives. On that occasion the Commissioner, Rodoljub Šabić said:
„International Courts for War Crimes for ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda should in due time end their mandate and stop working, which is already now making current the issue of dealing with their archives. It is about huge documentation, millions of pages of the written material and tens of thousands of hours of audio-visual records.
International crime tribunals have formed a team of recognized experts from the field of archiving and law, with the task to offer independent analysis of the problem and to suggest adequate solutions, and my collocutors are team members who would deal with International Courts for War Crimes for ex-Yugoslavia archive.
During the talk I have stressed the huge importance this archive wealth has for people and persons from the ex-Yugoslav territory. I have underlined the need to secure its safety in the best possible way, that is, keeping of secret. Simultaneously, I have stressed that with the assumption to secure other legitimate interests, one should create conditions for the widest possible access to information contained in the archive, in order to make them improve the current and future judicial practice, and to serve as a basis for historical research and of course, to contribute to reconciliation and peace in this territory.“