BELGRADE, April 24 (Hina) - All indictees of the Hague-based U.N. war crimes tribunal (ICTY) who surrender to the tribunal may request the state's help and protection, said Serbia and Montenegrin President Svetozar Marovic on
Thursday. He said the recent surrender of a retired captain of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), Miroslav Radic, indicted for war crimes in Vukovar, was "a positive step".
BELGRADE, April 24 (Hina) - All indictees of the Hague-based U.N.
war crimes tribunal (ICTY) who surrender to the tribunal may
request the state's help and protection, said Serbia and
Montenegrin President Svetozar Marovic on Thursday. He said the
recent surrender of a retired captain of the former Yugoslav
People's Army (JNA), Miroslav Radic, indicted for war crimes in
Vukovar, was "a positive step". #L#
"I have reason to believe that other indictees might also
surrender. On the contrary, we will be faced with a choice: either
to finally complete cooperation (with the ICTY) and demand Serbia
and Montenegro's expedited accession into the European Union, or we
will close all doors to loans, support and understanding and opt for
a life full of expectation that the world might change its stand.
These are naive ideas," Marovic told the Beta news agency.
He said he did not know the whereabouts of the war-time commander of
the Bosnian Serb army, Ratko Mladic. Those in the Yugoslav Army
proved to be harbouring Mladic will be discharged, he said.
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