BELGRADE, June 17 (Hina) - Serbian Police General Vlastimir Djordjevic, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was arrested in Montenegro on Sunday, the president of the Serbian National Council for
Cooperation with the ICTY, Rasic Ljajic, confirmed in Belgrade.
BELGRADE, June 17 (Hina) - Serbian Police General Vlastimir
Djordjevic, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, was arrested in Montenegro on Sunday, the president of the Serbian
National Council for Cooperation with the ICTY, Rasic Ljajic, confirmed in
Belgrade. Djordjevic, for whom the Serbian authorities claimed that
was hiding in Russia, was arrested after an operation, launched by Serbian and
Montenegrin police forces. The arrest operation lasted several days.
He is indicted for Serb for crimes against humanity for ordering the
killings of Kosovo Albanian civilians in 1998-99.
Serbia's turnaround in arrest war crimes indictees after a year of
inaction and defiance unlocked its frozen talks with the European Union on
closer ties, but Brussels wants more arrests before signing a deal.