BELGRADE, Jan 21 (Hina) - The deadline for Yugoslavia to extradite former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic and two Serbs indicted for war crimes in Vukovar -- Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic, expires on March 31.
Should the Yugoslav government fail to do so, it will stop receiving economic assistance from America, the US ambassador in charge of war crimes, Pierre Richard Prosper, said in Belgrade Tuesday.
BELGRADE, Jan 21 (Hina) - The deadline for Yugoslavia to extradite
former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic and two Serbs
indicted for war crimes in Vukovar -- Veselin Sljivancanin and
Miroslav Radic, expires on March 31. Should the Yugoslav government
fail to do so, it will stop receiving economic assistance from
America, the US ambassador in charge of war crimes, Pierre Richard
Prosper, said in Belgrade Tuesday. #L#
Prosper told reporters he had relayed a message to Serbian Premier
Zoran Djindjic that now was the time to undertake the necessary
steps to put the war crimes issue behind once and for all.
The three are people who are in effect keeping the country hostage
because of the war crimes issue, Prosper said after talks with
Djindjic Tuesday night.
Most other cases, if the above three go to the Hague's war crimes
tribunal, could be processed before domestic courts, Prosper said,
stressing that the tribunal's chief prosecutor did not believe for
a minute that Mladic was not hiding in Serbia.
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