MILOSEVIC WAR CRIMES TRIAL RESUMES AFTER TWO-WEEK BREAK

THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, July 2 (Hina) - The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal resumed on Tuesday after a two-week break with the testimony of Austrian diplomat Wolfgang Petritsch. #L# The trial was adjourned on June 17. In the meantime, the trial chamber, at the prosecution's urging, requested a detailed medical check-up of the defendant which, according to Judge Richard May, has yet to be done. Milosevic, who did not show any signs of a cold, objected that the prosecution was submitting witness testimonies too late. He said Srdja Popovic would testify as a constitutional and criminal law expert. The former Yugoslav leader is charged with crimes against humanity in Kosovo and Croatia, and genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is currently being tried for the Kosovo crimes. Wolfgang Petritsch was the European Union's special envoy for Kosovo before the NATO air raids against Serbia in 1999. He and US mediator Christopher Hill tried to help official Belgrade and the Kosovo Albanian leadership reach a peaceful solution to the Kosovo crisis. Petritsch was later appointed High Representative in Bosnia. (hina) ha