BELGRADE - EVERYTHING READY FOR TRIAL OF SERBIAN PM'S ASSASSINS

BELGRADE, Dec 18 (Hina) - Everything is ready for the trial of those accused of the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, due to start on Monday, December 22, Belgrade District Court Judge Maja Kovacevic told Radio B92 on Thursday.#L# Twenty-one of 36 accused will appear before a panel presided by Judge Marko Kljajevic. Three accused will appear as witnesses for the prosecution, while seven will be tried separately, among them Borislav Mikelic, a former official of rebel Croatian Serbs' self-styled republic in the early 1990s. Fifteen accused are still at large, among them the first on the indictment, Milorad Lukovic aka Legija, former commander of the Serbian Interior Ministry's Units for Special Operations. They will be tried in absentia, said Kovacevic. Djindjic was assassinated in front of the government building on March 12. (Hina) ha sb