THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Feb 28 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic does not intend to ask for a repetition of the first part of his trial at the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal, which lasted two years, although the
recent resignation of the chairman of the trial chamber, Richard May, opens up that possibility, the defendant's legal advisor Dragoljub Ognjanovic said.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Feb 28 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic does not intend to ask for a repetition of the first part of
his trial at the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal, which lasted two
years, although the recent resignation of the chairman of the trial
chamber, Richard May, opens up that possibility, the defendant's legal
advisor Dragoljub Ognjanovic said.#L#
"We are not considering that possibility. We are working on the
continuation of the trial," Ognjanovic told Reuters on Friday. In next
three months, Ognjanovic will participate in preparations for the
presentation of Milosevic's defence. The presentation of evidence by
the defence is scheduled to start on 8 June.
In the last two years prosecutors of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) presented evidence against
Milosevic, who is accused of genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and war
crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo in the 1990s.
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