BELGRADE, Nov 15 (Hina) - The UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has sent the authorities in Belgrade a court order seeking the hand-over of the personal army file of a former Bosnian Serb army commander and ICTY
indictee, General Ratko Mladic, the media in Belgrade reported on Saturday.
BELGRADE, Nov 15 (Hina) - The UN war crimes tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) has sent the authorities in Belgrade a court
order seeking the hand-over of the personal army file of a former
Bosnian Serb army commander and ICTY indictee, General Ratko
Mladic, the media in Belgrade reported on Saturday. #L#
Florence Hartmann, spokeswoman for ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del
Ponte, told the Tanjug news agency the order was sent to Serbia and
Montenegro's Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic, who also chairs
the national council for cooperation with the ICTY.
Hartmann said that the prosecution's previous requests for
Mladic's army file had been ignored, which was why the tribunal had
decided to send an order to the government of Serbia and
Montenegro.
Mladic's file should include information on his service in the
Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and the Republika Srpska Army, copies
of all orders appointing him to certain posts, a description of his
activities and duties, information on his awards and decorations,
and information on whether he receives a state pension, Hartmann
said.
In the meantime, Radio Free Europe has quoted senior state
officials as saying the military archives did not contain Mladic's
file. The radio claims that after Del Ponte's last visit to
Belgrade, the President of Serbia and Montenegro, Svetozar
Marovic, had personally requested that relevant services provide
him with Mladic's file, only to learn that his personal documents
had mysteriously disappeared.
(hina) rml