MLADIC DISAPPEARED WITHOUT TRACE A YEAR AGO - MINISTER

BELGRADE, March 8 (Hina) - Ratko Mladic, a former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, disappeared without trace a year ago, and one should distinguish between his case and the cases of Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic, two other indictees of the U.N. war crimes tribunal, Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic said on Saturday. #L# "Sljivancanin and Radic are our citizens who, if they were real patriots, would respond to the summons of a domestic court. Since they have not done so, the police will find them sooner or later," Mihajlovic said at a meeting of his party, the New Democracy, which he leads and which today changed its name into the Serbian Liberals. "When Mladic's security was denied logistic support which he enjoyed in some structures in Serbia, he disappeared without trace. For more than a year there has been no information about Mladic," Mihajlovic said. He added that there was not a single piece of relevant evidence nor indication that Mladic was on Serbia's territory and that it was unfair to request the Serbian government to hand over to the tribunal someone who not even the tribunal could prove was in Serbia. (hina) rml