BELGRADE DENIES TRIBUNAL'S CLAIMS ON MLADIC'S WHEREABOUTS

BELGRADE, July 18 (Hina) - President of the Committee for Security with the Serbian Assembly Dragan Sutanovac on Thursday stated that the federal and republic interior ministries did not have information of the whereabouts of former Bosnian Serb army commander, Ratko Mladic nor that he was still in Yugoslavia. #L# Commenting in Thursday's issue of the "Vecernje novosti" daily, on statements that the UN war crimes tribunal's Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte would arrive in Belgrade on Friday with the address where Mladic was located, Sutanovac said the information available to that state bodies did not support the idea that the war-time Bosnian Serb commander was still in Yugoslavia. Sutanovac said that if the statement was correct, which was made by recently dismissed chief of staff in the Yugoslav army headquarters Nebojsa Pavkovic that another high-ranking officer of the Yugoslav Army, Aleksandar Tomic, had recently met with Mladic, "this opens many questions about civil control over the military." (hina) sp ms