BELGRADE, Dec 27 (Hina) - Yugoslavia's Supreme Defence Council has decided to remove the seal of secrecy from certain documents within its sphere of activity, which have been requested by the prosecutor's office of the U.N. war crimes
tribunal at The Hague, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's Military Cabinet said in a statement after the Council's session on Friday.
BELGRADE, Dec 27 (Hina) - Yugoslavia's Supreme Defence Council has
decided to remove the seal of secrecy from certain documents within
its sphere of activity, which have been requested by the
prosecutor's office of the U.N. war crimes tribunal at The Hague,
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's Military Cabinet said in a
statement after the Council's session on Friday. #L#
The documents will be delivered to Yugoslavia's National Council
for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, the statement read.
Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic told reporters yesterday the
National Council, which he chairs, would decide whether the
documents would be sent to The Hague.
Today's Supreme Defence Council session was presided by Kostunica.
In attendance were senior officials, including incumbent Serbian
President Milan Milutinovic, who has been indicted by the Hague
tribunal, Montenegro's acting president Filip Vujanovic, Yugoslav
Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and Defence Minister Velimir
Radojevic, and the Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff's envoy, Branko
Krga.
The chief prosecutor with the International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, has recently vehemently
slammed Yugoslav authorities for denying tribunal investigators
access to state and other archives. Yugoslavia's leaders deny this,
claiming that more than half the tribunal's requests have been met.
The rest cannot be executed "because they make no sense," they say.
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