SAINOVIC WON'T GO TO HAGUE ON MONDAY, SLJIVANCANIN WON'T SURRENDER

ZAGREB, April 26 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav Vice-President Nikola Sainovic will not leave for The Hague on Monday as previously announced, while Veselin Sljivancanin, who was indicted for war crimes in Vukovar, has no intention of surrendering to the Hague war crimes tribunal, Belgrade TV stations reported on Friday. #L# "Negotiations with the Tribunal are underway," Sainovic's attorney Toma Fila said. "Mr. Sainovic has responded to the appeal of the federal government. We will go to The Hague to see justice done," Fila said. Sainovic is on a joint indictment along with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as one of Milosevic's four closest associates charged with crimes committed in Kosovo in 1999. Former Yugoslav Army Chief-of-Staff Dragoljub Ojdanic turned himself in to the Hague tribunal on Thursday, while former Serbian Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic committed suicide. The fourth on the indictment is the incumbent Serbian President Milan Milutinovic. Several other indictees who have said that they will surrender voluntarily, including the former leader of Croatian Serb rebels, Milan Martic, accused of the 1995 shelling of Zagreb, and General Mile Mrksic, charged with the massacre of patients from the Vukovar hospital, have been given between 15 and 30 days to prepare for departure. Veselin Sljivancanin, who has been accused together with Mrksic and Miroslav Radic of the massacre at Ovcara, denied that he intended to surrender, dismissing reports on his surrender as "fabrications", Television B92 said. According to the TV station, Sljivancanin explained his contacts with the Justice Ministry with his wish to protest against a public campaign he claims he has been exposed to. Sljivancanin said on previous occasions that he had no intention of surrendering and never left his home without a hand grenade. (hina) rml