YU MEDIA: NO AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION WITH HAGUE, SPLIT IN GOVT.

BELGRADE, June 4 (Hina) - The Yugoslav ruling coalition's (DOS) third meeting with Montenegro's Socialist People's Party (SNP) about a law on cooperation with UN's war crimes tribunal in the Hague yielded no results. The media in Belgrade and Podgorica say on Monday a serious crisis of the federal government is underway. Representatives of the DOS and the SNP met shortly before midnight on Sunday and a mere one hour later said they had failed to agree on a law on Yugoslavia's cooperation with the Hague tribunal. The stalling in the passing of a law which would enable the extradition of Yugoslav citizens indicted by the tribunal undermines the success of a donors' conference scheduled for the end of this month. International donors have made it a condition for Yugoslavia to adopt such a law, while the United States made its participation conditional on the extradition of the former President Slobodan Milosevic. The next DOS-SNP meeting will take place in two days, incumbent head of state Vojislav Kostunica said earlier today. Montenegro's proposal centres around the passing of a cooperation law, albeit without the possibility of extraditing Yugoslav citizens. "No progress at all has been made in the talks of the federal coalition partners... in connection with the possibility of extraditing Yugoslav citizens," the Belgrade-based daily Politika says today. Quoting an unidentified participant in yesterday's talks, Politika claims the federal government and the state itself "have entered a deep crisis which it will be very hard to overcome." The Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti, Blic, and Borba concur, claiming "The Hague is still far away." Dailies in the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica all agree a Yugoslav government crisis is brewing up and that "the DOS and the SNP are about to part ways." Quoting Kostunica to the effect that "the SNP proposal deserves attention", some media see the possibility of a split within the DOS' ranks. "Only (Montenegrin President) Djukanovic and (Hague chief prosecutor) Carla del Ponte have reason to be satisfied," Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said after the Sunday talks. (hina) ha