BELGRADE, April 27 (Hina) - The Hague war crimes tribunal does not recognise the immunity an indictee enjoys in his country, incumbent Serbian President Milan Milutinovic included, the chief of the UN tribunal's Belgrade office,
Matias Hellman, said on Saturday.
BELGRADE, April 27 (Hina) - The Hague war crimes tribunal does not
recognise the immunity an indictee enjoys in his country, incumbent
Serbian President Milan Milutinovic included, the chief of the UN
tribunal's Belgrade office, Matias Hellman, said on Saturday. #L#
Milutinovic has been charged with crimes committed in Kosovo in
1999.
The tribunal insists on having all indictees appear in court as soon
as possible, which is important as the accused on the same
indictment should be brought to court at the same time so that a
joint trial could be held, to save time and resources, Hellman told
a Novi Sad seminar on the practical aspects of the work of defence
attorneys before the Hague tribunal.
Sainovic is on the same indictment as Slobodan Milosevic, Dragoljub
Ojdanic, and Vlajko Stojiljkovic. The former two are already in the
tribunal's custody, while the latter recently committed suicide.
Hellman said the Hague tribunal attributed more importance to
concrete, full, and unconditional cooperation than to whether a
country had a law on cooperation with the tribunal.
He recalled that 29 more war crimes indictees were still at large on
the territory of the ex-Yugoslavia. He said he did not know how many
sealed indictments there still were, but added they were fewer than
those 29 public ones.
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