BELGRADE, Feb 11 (Hina) - The UN war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, has so far failed to corroborate her statements that Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are in Belgrade, and Serbia has not received any evidence
which could help it in efforts to arrest them, Serbian Premier Zoran Zivkovic said on Wednesday.
BELGRADE, Feb 11 (Hina) - The UN war crimes tribunal's chief
prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, has so far failed to corroborate her
statements that Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are in Belgrade, and
Serbia has not received any evidence which could help it in efforts to
arrest them, Serbian Premier Zoran Zivkovic said on Wednesday.#L#
"Her statements are neither new nor anything unexpected. She has been
saying similar things for years. The chief prosecutor, however, has
not offered any information that can help the attempts to arrest the
suspects, and she has not given us information to prove her
statements," Zivkovic was quoted by the local Beta agency as saying.
He went on to say that competent bodies in Serbia had no knowledge
which could confirm Carla del Ponte's statement.
The foreign minister of Serbia-Montenegro, Goran Svilanovic, who is at
the helm of the national council for cooperation with the Hague-based
tribunal, declined to comment on del Ponte's statement.
(Hina) ms sb