BELGRADE, April 30 (Hina) - Milan Martic, charged by the UN war crimes tribunal with the 1995 shelling of Zagreb, will travel to The Hague next week, his lawyer Strahinja Kastratovic told the Beta news agency on Tuesday.
BELGRADE, April 30 (Hina) - Milan Martic, charged by the UN war
crimes tribunal with the 1995 shelling of Zagreb, will travel to The
Hague next week, his lawyer Strahinja Kastratovic told the Beta
news agency on Tuesday. #L#
The Yugoslav Justice Ministry has confirmed this Thursday's
departure to The Hague for Nikola Sainovic, former Yugoslav prime
minister and one of Slobodan Milosevic's closest associates who has
been charged with war crimes in Kosovo, and Momcilo Gruban, accused
of war crimes committed in Omarska, a detention camp in Bosnia.
After the Yugoslav government called on 23 Hague tribunal indictees
to surrender themselves, six reported to the Justice Ministry,
whereas proceedings have been launched against the others before
the Belgrade County Court, in line with Yugoslavia's law on
cooperation with the UN tribunal.
Of the six who reported for surrender, Dragoljub Ojdanic has
already gone to The Hague. He is a former Yugoslav Army chief-of-
staff who has been charged, together with Milosevic, with war
crimes in Kosovo in 1999.
Martic, Sainovic, and Gruban have to be at The Hague within a week,
as stipulated by the Yugoslav Justice Ministry. Mile Mrksic, an
officer of the former Yugoslav army (JNA), has been given three
weeks to surrender due to his ill health.
It remains unknown when Vladmir Kovacevic aka Rambo, charged with
crimes in Croatia's Dubrovnik area who has also volunteered to
surrender, will go to The Netherlands.
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