BELGRADE, March 28 (Hina) - One can expect the hand-over of Yugoslav citizens accused of war crimes to the Hague tribunal in line with a Serbian government's regulation on direct application of the tribunal's statute adopted
yesterday, a spokesman for the Serbian Civil Alliance of Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said in Belgrade on Thursday.
BELGRADE, March 28 (Hina) - One can expect the hand-over of Yugoslav
citizens accused of war crimes to the Hague tribunal in line with a
Serbian government's regulation on direct application of the
tribunal's statute adopted yesterday, a spokesman for the Serbian
Civil Alliance of Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said
in Belgrade on Thursday. #L#
Ivan Andric told a news conference the Serbian government adopted
the regulation because the federal Constitutional Court had
suspended last year's regulation under which Slobodan Milosevic
was handed over to the Hague last June.
Andric said the Yugoslav authorities should first hand over six
most wanted indictees (Veselin Sljivancanin, Mile Mrksic and
Miroslav Radic - indicted for war crimes in Vukovar, as well as
Nikola Sainovic, Dragoljub Ojdanic, and Vlajko Stoiljkovic). The
authorities should also see that Yugoslavia no longer harbours
foreign citizens wanted by The Hague, form a commission which would
grant Hague investigators access to the state archives, initiate
trials at domestic courts against other war crimes suspects, and
once these requirement are met, announce that they will no longer
hand over Yugoslav citizens to the tribunal, he said.
(hina) rml