RUSSIAN OFFICIAL SUGGESTS DEL PONTE TO VISIT WASHINGTON

ZAGREB, Feb 1 (Hina) - ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte should visit Washington after Belgrade to hand over a warrant for the arrest of Bill Clinton who ordered air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Russian parliament's lower house head, Genadij Seleznyov, said in Zagreb on Thursday evening. "I would advise Carla del Ponte to travel now to Washington and deliver the warrant for the arrest of Bill Clinton, as he has admitted that he launched an aggression against the FRY," the Russian official said. Asked by reporters whether he agreed that there would be no permanent peace in the area unless all war criminals were brought before justice, Seleznyov replied that in his country it was not usual to call a man criminal as long as his crime was not proved by a court. We are in favour of finding concrete individuals who issued orders for the killings, arson and violence and we are in favour of their trial before either courts in their own countries or before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, he said at the end of his two-day official visit to Zagreb. (hina) ms