BELGRADE, Jan 19 (Hina) - Milan Milutinovic, Serbia's president until recently who is charged with war crimes, should travel to The Hague and surrender to the U.N. tribunal on Monday, Yugoslavia's Beta news agency said on Sunday,
quoting "reliable sources at the Tribunal".
BELGRADE, Jan 19 (Hina) - Milan Milutinovic, Serbia's president
until recently who is charged with war crimes, should travel to The
Hague and surrender to the U.N. tribunal on Monday, Yugoslavia's
Beta news agency said on Sunday, quoting "reliable sources at the
Tribunal". #L#
Belgrade-based B92 radio released the same news, quoting its own
sources.
It also claimed that Goran Svilanovic, Yugoslavia's Foreign
Minister and president of its council for cooperation with the
Hague tribunal, had sent a letter to the court's president saying
that Milutinovic had cooperated with the new authorities in
Belgrade, was surrendering voluntarily, and that "it would be
desirable" if he was allowed to be free pending trial.
A similarly worded letter was sent by Serbia's Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic as well, said B92.
Milutinovic is charged with crimes against humanity committed on
Albanian civilians in Kosovo in the spring of 1999, during NATO's
intervention against Yugoslavia. He is charged alongside
Yugoslavia's then President Slobodan Milosevic, then military
chief-of-staff Dragoljub Ojdanic, and former Prime Minister Nikola
Sainovic. Ojdanic and Sainovic surrendered to the Hague tribunal
voluntarily last spring.
The fifth on the indictment, Serbia's 1999 Interior Minister Vlajko
Stojiljkovic, committed suicide on 11 April 2002.
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