BELGRADE, Feb 24 (Hina) - The US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, William Montgomery, has suggested to Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica that Yugoslav authorities should urgently adopt a law on cooperation with the Hague-based war crimes
tribunal and hand over at least three war crimes indictees by March 31, the "Glas javnosti" paper of Sunday quoted diplomatic sources as saying. The paper reports that at his meeting with Kostunica, which was also attended by two US government officials in charge of cooperation with the Hague tribunal, Montgomery requested that Yugoslavia speed up reforms in the army and that Chief-of-Staff Nebojsa Pavkovic and several other generals from the time of the Kosovo conflict be replaced. The sources did not say what Kostunica had replied, but they estimate that the stand of the US administration on Serbian-Montenegrin talks about the future of the joint feder
BELGRADE, Feb 24 (Hina) - The US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, William
Montgomery, has suggested to Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
that Yugoslav authorities should urgently adopt a law on
cooperation with the Hague-based war crimes tribunal and hand over
at least three war crimes indictees by March 31, the "Glas javnosti"
paper of Sunday quoted diplomatic sources as saying.
The paper reports that at his meeting with Kostunica, which was also
attended by two US government officials in charge of cooperation
with the Hague tribunal, Montgomery requested that Yugoslavia
speed up reforms in the army and that Chief-of-Staff Nebojsa
Pavkovic and several other generals from the time of the Kosovo
conflict be replaced.
The sources did not say what Kostunica had replied, but they
estimate that the stand of the US administration on Serbian-
Montenegrin talks about the future of the joint federation will
considerably depend on Yugoslavia's response to those conditions.
(hina) rml