BELGRADE: ARREST OF WAR CRIMES INDICTEES FAILS

BELGRADE, May 14 (Hina) - Not one of the 17 indictees who have not answered the Yugoslav government's appeal to surrender to the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal has been brought in for questioning, the chief of the Belgrade county court's investigating department, Branislav Todic, told Tuesday's "Vecernje novosti" daily. #L# The daily says the police unsuccessfully looked for the indictees, including three teams, including intervention police, who visited three addresses on Monday at which they had already been. These three addresses and another five have been delivered by the Hague tribunal as allegedly harbouring eight indictees, says the daily. Describing Monday's police operations, "Vecernje novosti" says they included dozens of officers and lasted a little over an hour. Also today, the cabinet of Dragoljub Micunovic, the president of the Yugoslav parliament's Council of Citizens, refuted a statement he made to Croatia's "Novi list" daily saying the so-called Vukovar Three (Veselin Sljivancanin, Milan Mrksic, Miroslav Radic) would end up at The Hague in a couple of days. The statement was poorly interpreted, the cabinet said. Micunovic was not speaking about deadlines but procedure stipulated by Yugoslavia's law on cooperation with the tribunal, whereby those who fail to surrender within three days are to be arrested, the cabinet said. (hina) ha