A panel of judges of the Belgrade special tribunal for organised crime has issued a warrant for Pavkovic's arrest following the proposal by prosecutor Miroljub Vitorovic in proceedings launched into the assassination of a former Serbian President, Ivan Stambolic, and an attempt on the life of Vuk Draskovic while he was a leading opposition politician.
Gen. Pavkovic has been accused as an accomplice in the assassination attempt on Draskovic on 15 June 2000 in the Montenegrin coastal city of Budva. Pavkovic is believed to have enabled those accused of the assassination attempt to leave Montenegro in military cars and by army helicopter after they tried to kill Draskovic.
Pavkovic has also been indicted by the Hague-based UN tribunal for war crimes in Kosovo.
He has said on several occasions that he does not intend to turn himself in to the Hague court.
Another indictee of the Hague tribunal, General Sreten Lukic, on Tuesday morning underwent cardiovascular surgery in Belgrade. The operation was successful and Lukic is likely to fly to The Hague in a few days' time, said Rasim Ljajic, the head of Serbia-Montenegro's national council for cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
"The surgery was performed in the best way and Lukic will be under doctors' supervision in the coming days so that he can fully recover" Ljajic told the Beta agency, explaining that the surgery included the enlargement of a blood vessel but did not require opening the patient's chest.
Lukic, one of the four generals accused by the ICTY for war crimes in Kosovo in 1999, has been the first to take over his indictment.
The second in the group of the four accused general, General Vladimir Lazarevic, recently surrendered to the Hague tribunal voluntarily.
The third, Vladimir Djordjevic, left Serbia immediately after the ouster of the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, and is believed to be in Russia.
The fourth, the above-mentioned Pavkovic, is still at large.