BELGRADE, Jan 20 (Hina) - Serbia's former President Milan Milutinovic left Belgrade for The Hague on Monday morning to voluntarily surrender to a U.N. war crimes tribunal, Yugoslavia's Assistant Justice Minister Nebojsa Sarkic told
Belgrade-based BK television station.
BELGRADE, Jan 20 (Hina) - Serbia's former President Milan
Milutinovic left Belgrade for The Hague on Monday morning to
voluntarily surrender to a U.N. war crimes tribunal, Yugoslavia's
Assistant Justice Minister Nebojsa Sarkic told Belgrade-based BK
television station. #L#
Milutinovic is charged with atrocities against Kosovo Albanians in
1999.
He was in office from 1997 until December 29, 2002, when the
immunity he enjoyed as president and his term expired.
The Yugoslav and Serbian governments have given guarantees
requesting that Milutinovic be released from custody pending
trial, citing his poor health and improvement of Yugoslavia's
cooperation with the Hague tribunal in light of expectations that
his arrival will be viewed as voluntary and timely surrender.
In a recent interview with Serbia's radio-television, Milutinovic
has said he does not feel guilty for the Kosovo crimes he has been
charged with alongside Yugoslavia's 1999 President Slobodan
Milosevic, then military chief-of-staff Dragoljub Ojdanic and
former Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic. The latter two
surrendered voluntarily last spring.
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