SERBIA DEPUTY PM SAYS HE HEARD OF HAGUE INDICTMENT AGAINST SESELJ

BELGRADE, Feb 2 (Hina) - Serbia's deputy prime minister said on Sunday he had "found out" that the chief prosecutor with the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague had signed an indictment against Serb Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, and that by regular procedure the authorities in Belgrade should receive it in a month's time at the latest. #L# Miodrag Isakov told Belgrade's radio B 92 the information was unofficial but "very reliable". He said he learned about it from diplomatic sources in Strasbourg, which he visited last week as part of a Yugoslav delegation attending a Council of Europe parliamentary assembly session. He also said that judging by Seselj's behaviour, the news had reached him too. Speaking at a news conference on Saturday, Seselj said an attempt had been made to kidnap him on Friday, and that "agents of the British SAS (Special Air Service)" had arrived in Belgrade to arrest him and other Hague indictees in concert with local police. This was denied by Nenad Milic, the deputy police minister. Goran Svilanovic, Yugoslavia's foreign minister and president of its council for cooperation with the Hague tribunal, said he did not have information about an indictment against Seselj. Seselj's party today accused the DOS ruling coalition of having urged the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, to indict Seselj to prevent him from winning a presidential ballot and take him out of the country. The Radicals said in today's statement Isakov's claim "clearly shows what liars Premier Zoran Djindjic, Goran Svilanovic and Nenad Milic are, who not only knew about the indictment against Seselj, but demanded that Carla Del Ponte indict him". The indictment against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic mentions Seselj, who has said several times he would go to The Hague voluntarily, as a participant of the joint criminal enterprise in the Croatian and Bosnian wars. (hina) ha