BELGRADE: DIFFERENCES ABOUT LAW ON COOPERATION WITH HAGUE

BELGRADE, March 8 (Hina) - Yugoslavia will continue enforcing a Serbian government decision on the application of the Statute of the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague unless Montenegro's Socialist People's Party, the DOS coalition's partner on the federal level, accepts a bill on cooperation with the tribunal, a senior official with Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic's Democratic Party, Cedomir Prodanovic, said on Friday. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic confirmed this in an interview with Radio Jugoslavija. He announced the extradition of war crimes suspects "before the end of March." All members of the DOS ruling coalition yesterday agreed about a federal bill on Yugoslavia's cooperation with the Hague tribunal, with the exception of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia. The bill adopted by the DOS presidency says that Yugoslavia will cooperate with the tribunal in line with the UN Security Council resolution and by respecting the tribunal's Statute. The bill does not speak about extradition but the basic position. Other issues would be dealt with by the two republics on the technical level. (hina) ha sb