BELGRADE DAILY: MILUTINOVIC WILL NOT GO TO HAGUE

BELGRADE, April 16 (Hina) - Of the four former Yugoslav officials indicted along with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against civilians in Kosovo in 1999, Vlajko Stojiljkovic, who committed suicide last week, is the only official who did not have any contacts with representatives of the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, reads Tuesday's issue of the Belgrade weekly "Reporter". #L# Quoting a source with the Democratic Party of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, the daily claims that it is almost certain that the incumbent Serbian President Milan Milutinovic will not go to The Hague, because "it will be difficult to prove his command responsibility". The same source claims that The Hague is particularly interested in two other indictees from the "Kosovo indictment" (Dragoljub Ojdanic, a former Yugoslav Army Chief-of-Staff, and Nikola Sainovic, a former Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and senior official of Milosevic's Socialist Party) and the "Vukovar three" (Veselin Sljivancanin, Mile Mrksic and Miroslav Radic). The source from the Democratic Party claims that Vojislav Kostunica is now facing a major problem "because cooperation with the Hague will also have to include the army, and it won't be only on paper". Quoting a source close to the Hague prosecution, the daily says that there will be no new indictments, at least for some time (so far the Yugoslav authorities have received 20 indictments). The daily claims the chief prosecutor of the Hague war crimes tribunal, Carla del Ponte, suspended investigations against generals Nebojsa Pavkovic and Vladimir Lazarevic and police general Sreten Lukic over their role in Kosovo in 1999 in order to "maintain good relations with Belgrade". Del Ponte is expected to pay a visit to Belgrade at the end of this week. (hina) rml