BELGRADE, March 5 (Hina) - The dismissal of the assistant interior minister and chief of the Public Security Department, General Sreten Lukic, has nothing to do with his extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, which
has indicted him for war crimes along with three other generals, the new Serbian interior minister Dragan Jocic said on Friday.
BELGRADE, March 5 (Hina) - The dismissal of the assistant interior
minister and chief of the Public Security Department, General Sreten
Lukic, has nothing to do with his extradition to the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague, which has indicted him for war crimes along
with three other generals, the new Serbian interior minister Dragan
Jocic said on Friday.#L#
Speaking to reporters in the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro in
Belgrade, Jocic said that Thursday's dismissal of Lukic and other
assistant and deputy interior ministers was "the beginning of the
staff reorganisation of the Serbian Interior Ministry" that it was
usual at the time of change of government.
Lukic, along with generals Nebojsa Pavkovic, Vladimir Lazarevic and
Vlastimir Djordjevic, was charged with war crimes committed in Kosovo
in 1999. The previous government refused to relieve Lukic of his
duties or hand the four over to the Hague tribunal.
At last year's parliamentary elections, Lukic occupied the no. 4 spot
on the electoral list of the Liberal Party led by the previous
interior minister, Dusan Mihajlovic.
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