BELGRADE, June 27 (Hina) - The UN war crimes tribunal's indictees, Nikola Sainovic and Dragoljub Ojdanic, who are accused together with the former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic of war crimes in Kosovo, may arrive in Belgrade
on Saturday if the Tribunal's prosecution does not appeal within the next 24 hours against their temporary release from custody, Belgrade lawyer Toma Fila said on Wednesday night.
BELGRADE, June 27 (Hina) - The UN war crimes tribunal's indictees,
Nikola Sainovic and Dragoljub Ojdanic, who are accused together
with the former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic of war crimes
in Kosovo, may arrive in Belgrade on Saturday if the Tribunal's
prosecution does not appeal within the next 24 hours against their
temporary release from custody, Belgrade lawyer Toma Fila said on
Wednesday night. #L#
Nikola Sainovic, a former top official of the Yugoslav government,
and Dragoljub Ojdanic, a former Yugoslav army chief-of-staff,
voluntarily surrendered to the Hague-based tribunal after
Yugoslavia adopted a law on the cooperation with that court.
Earlier this month Belgrade forwarded guarantees to the Tribunal
for their temporary release until the start of the trial.
According to a decision of a tribunal trial chamber, Sainovic and
Ojdanic, when released, should at any moment be available to the
prosecution, but this "does not imply cooperation in the sense of
something unfair," and "there will be no testimonies against
Milosevic," their lawyer Fila was quoted by the local news agency
'Beta' as saying.
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