BELGRADE, Feb 25 (Hina) - Competent Serbian bodies are not willing to begin the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb war-time military commander, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic told the Fonet news agency on Monday. He said
the most the government could do was to make sure Serbia was not an asylum for people wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague, and to "ask (all these people) in a certain way or indirectly force them to leave Serbia." "For five years Mladic and (former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan) Karadzic have been in Bosnia, where NATO has 50,000 troops, and the main reason why they are still on the list and not in The Hague is the risk for those soldiers. They (Mladic and Karadzic) have security and somebody could be killed during the arrest," said Djindjic. He added he had warned representatives of the UN tribunal and the international community that the lives of the Serbian police "are
BELGRADE, Feb 25 (Hina) - Competent Serbian bodies are not willing
to begin the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb war-time
military commander, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic told the
Fonet news agency on Monday.
He said the most the government could do was to make sure Serbia was
not an asylum for people wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal at The
Hague, and to "ask (all these people) in a certain way or indirectly
force them to leave Serbia."
"For five years Mladic and (former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan)
Karadzic have been in Bosnia, where NATO has 50,000 troops, and the
main reason why they are still on the list and not in The Hague is the
risk for those soldiers. They (Mladic and Karadzic) have security
and somebody could be killed during the arrest," said Djindjic.
He added he had warned representatives of the UN tribunal and the
international community that the lives of the Serbian police "are
not less worthy than the life of a NATO soldier."
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