BELGRADE, Jan 22 (Hina) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic on Wednesday expressed doubt that the government in Belgrade will manage to meet all the demands set by US administration to be fulfilled by March 31 as a condition for further
financial assistance as presented by US Ambassador for war crimes Pierre Richard Prosper.
BELGRADE, Jan 22 (Hina) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic on
Wednesday expressed doubt that the government in Belgrade will
manage to meet all the demands set by US administration to be
fulfilled by March 31 as a condition for further financial
assistance as presented by US Ambassador for war crimes Pierre
Richard Prosper. #L#
I'm not optimistic that we will be able to achieve what they are
demanding by March 31, Djindjic told journalists at the end of his
visit to Serbia's Interior Ministry during the day. Djindjic added
that it would be worthwhile for 200-300 million dollars to come into
the country but it was not tragic if it didn't. #L#
We cannot guarantee that a former military leader of the Bosnian
Serbs, Ratko Mladic - whose arrest as well as the apprehension of
war criminals, indicted for crimes committed in Vukovar, Veselin
Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic had been demanded by the USA - is
not in Serbia, the Serbian top official said. However, until now the
Serbian government has not received any reliable information that
they are in fact in Serbia. Officials of Serbia's intelligence do
not know the whereabouts of Radic or Sljivancanin, according to
him.
They are citizens of Serbia as opposed to Mladic and they are more
than likely in Serbia. I think that as a country we appear pretty
ridiculous to say that we have no idea where anyone who is being
looked for is, Djindjic said. He added that they should surrender
themselves to the Hague-based tribunal which would be the supreme
patriotic act.
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