SERBIA AUTHORITIES KNOW NOTHING ABOUT NEW HAGUE INDICTMENTS

BELGRADE, Feb 13 (Hina) - Serbia's Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic said on Thursday he was not familiar with reports that Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor with the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, was delivering new indictments to Belgrade. Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic described her impending visit as a "routine one". #L# Mihajlovic said he did not know that there existed indictments for Vojislav Seselj, the Serbian Radicals' leader, Jovica Stanisic, a former chief of state security, and Milorad Lukovic Legija, one- time commander of special operation units known as the Red Berets. The media have recently been speculating about these indictments, while Seselj even confirmed them. Mihajlovic said that if the three men were indicted, police could not arrest them as the country's law on cooperation with the Hague tribunal envisaged arresting only those who were indicted before the law was adopted. Djindjic told journalists he expected "nothing special" from Del Ponte's visit on Monday. Cooperation with the Hague tribunal is proceeding on several levels -- witnesses, archives, and those who have been indicted, he said. "We are doing what we can. The visit cannot change much but we can explain some of the problems we have in the cooperation," said Djindjic, adding that the documentation of Serbia's interior ministry was destroyed in NATO's air raids against Yugoslavia in 1999. (hina) ha sb