BELGRADE, July 25 (Hina) - Yugoslav Foreign Ministry official Vladimir Djeric travelled to The Hague on Wednesday, to explain to the U.N. war crimes tribunal the request of the authorities in Belgrade that the testimony of former
Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic, in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, be closed to the public.
BELGRADE, July 25 (Hina) - Yugoslav Foreign Ministry official
Vladimir Djeric travelled to The Hague on Wednesday, to explain to
the U.N. war crimes tribunal the request of the authorities in
Belgrade that the testimony of former Yugoslav President Zoran
Lilic, in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, be closed to the public.
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The reason for this is Yugoslavia's security and dignity, Belgrade-
based news agency Beta reports.
Beta cited Djeric as saying that the Yugoslav authorities were
particularly concerned with a possibility of abusing information
on conflicts in Bosnia and Croatia and the financing of the Yugoslav
army, provided by Ilic.
Ilic, who was Yugoslavia's head of state between 1993 and 1997, had
refused to testify in the Milosevic trial unless the Yugoslav
Supreme Council of Defence and President Kostunica personally
exempt him from the obligation of keeping state and military
secret.
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