BELGRADE, June 12 (Hina) - The Yugoslav Army headquarters' chief-of-staff, General Nebojsa Pavkovic on Tuesday accused "individuals from Serbia's Interior Ministry" of collecting discrediting material about high-ranking military
officials to defame them publicly. On Tuesday General Pavkovic refuted allegations which some interior ministry officials levelled at the Army of Yugoslavia linking top army officers with the case of 'the refrigerated trailer truck' in which bodies of the killed ethnic Albanians were found. Pavkovic asserted that the army was neither involved in the murder nor in attempts to cover up the corpses. Speaking about crimes committed in Kosovo, the general assessed that "they probably were perpetrated in areas outside the zone of responsibility of some (military) units." Commenting on the cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Pavkovic said it wou
BELGRADE, June 12 (Hina) - The Yugoslav Army headquarters' chief-
of-staff, General Nebojsa Pavkovic on Tuesday accused "individuals
from Serbia's Interior Ministry" of collecting discrediting
material about high-ranking military officials to defame them
publicly.
On Tuesday General Pavkovic refuted allegations which some
interior ministry officials levelled at the Army of Yugoslavia
linking top army officers with the case of 'the refrigerated
trailer truck' in which bodies of the killed ethnic Albanians were
found.
Pavkovic asserted that the army was neither involved in the murder
nor in attempts to cover up the corpses.
Speaking about crimes committed in Kosovo, the general assessed
that "they probably were perpetrated in areas outside the zone of
responsibility of some (military) units."
Commenting on the cooperation with the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Pavkovic said it would be
better to organise trials of war crimes suspects in Yugoslavia
"because of state interests."
In relation to the cooperation of the Yugoslav army with
Macedonia's military, he said "there has already been the
successful exchange of information and security data referring to
southern Serbia and northern Macedonia" as well as the exchange of
experience in the fight against terrorists.
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