HAGUE CHIEF PROSECUTOR ARRIVES IN BELGRADE

BELGRADE, March 21 (Hina) - The chief Hague prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, arrived in Belgrade on Friday to participate in a two-day seminar on Serbia and Montenegro and the U.N. war crimes tribunal. #L# The seminar has been organised by NATO and the Serbia and Montenegro parliament. Del Ponte's chief interlocutor in a debate should be Serbian Police Minister Dusan Mihajlovic. Participation in the seminar is the sole reason of Del Ponte's trip to Belgrade, and meetings with representatives of authorities should not be expected, her spokeswoman Florence Hartmann told Radio B92. Del Ponte's office declined to comment on the chief prosecutor's earlier announcement that she would go to the grave of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, assassinated last week. It was confirmed, however, that regardless of speculation that the assassination was in part related to pressure from The Hague, the prosecution would not reduce the number of demands from Serbia and Montenegro as cooperation with the tribunal was an international obligation the country had. Del Ponte had expressed a wish to attend Djindjic's funeral last Wednesday but was talked out of it by Serbia and Montenegro Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic who, according to her, said her attendance would be "inappropriate". (hina) ha