BELGRADE MONDAY BELGRADE, May 18 (Hina) - The Hague war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, arrives in Belgrade on Monday for a one-day visit during which she will again request the extradition of fugitive indictees
and access to military archives.
BELGRADE, May 18 (Hina) - The Hague war crimes tribunal's chief
prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, arrives in Belgrade on Monday for a
one-day visit during which she will again request the extradition
of fugitive indictees and access to military archives. #L#
Del Ponte will hold talks with Serbia-Montenegro President
Svetozar Markovic, Defence Minister Boris Tadic and Foreign
Minister Goran Svilanovic, and Serbia's Prime Minister Zoran
Zivkovic and public prosecutor Djordje Ostojic, her spokeswoman
Florence Hartmann told Belgrade's Radio B92 on Sunday.
Del Ponte will ask for the arrest and handover of former Bosnian
Serb army general Ratko Mladic, who according to the U.N.
tribunal's information is in Serbia, said Hartmann.
She recalled that in February slain Serbian PM Zoran Djindjic
promised that Mladic would be apprehended and surrendered.
Del Ponte will ask that this promise be kept and again request the
extradition of Veselin Sljivancanin, accused of crimes in Croatia,
and several accused of the massacre in Bosnia's Srebrenica who are
hiding in Serbia, especially Vinko Pandurevic, said Hartmann.
She added the chief prosecutor would warn her Belgrade
interlocutors that all deadlines had expired for the handover of
155 documents from military archives related to the trial of former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Serbian PM Zivkovic has denied claims that Mladic is in Serbia.
In an interview German magazine Der Spiegel runs on Monday,
Belgrade's electronic media report he was quoted as saying Belgrade
would be the least safe place for Mladic nowadays.
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