YUGOSLAV ARCHIVES OPENED FOR HAGUE INVESTIGATORS

BELGRADE, May 24 (Hina) - The Hague-based international war crimes tribunal forwarded Yugoslav authorities 18 requests to look over archives. The National Cooperation Council has granted 13 or 14 requests, and asked for additional explanation for the remainder, Interior Minister and member of the council, Zoran Zivkovic, said on Friday. #L# The council will only refuse the request that investigators enter the archives themselves, "which is not possible in any country, so it will not be in Yugoslavia either", Zivkovic said. "All granted requests pertain to public documents, all court files and there is nothing spectacular about them," he told reporters. The federal Justice Ministry on Friday submitted to the Belgrade Municipal Court's investigative department an arrest warrant for Vladimir Kovacevic, an officer of the former Yugoslav People's Army, indicted for war crimes in Dubrovnik in 1991. Kovacevic said he would surrender to the Hague tribunal, but did not give himself up to the Yugoslav authorities, the department's head, Branislav Todic, said. Interior ministry's search department members said that nine from the list of 15 indictees were not in Belgrade or Serbia. Police say they were still trying to locate the remaining six, via regular channels. (hina) lml