ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR POSTPONES HER VISIT TO BELGRADE

BELGRADE, June 19 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, has postponed her visit to Belgrade, planned for Friday, ICTY spokeswoman Florence Hartmann was quoted by a Belgrade agency, 'Beta', as saying. Carla del Ponte was to hold talks with Yugoslav and Serbian officials on the cooperation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) with the Hague-based Tribunal prior to her departure to New York where she is going to submit a report on the Tribunal's work to the UN Security Council. On Thursday del Ponte will travel to Germany. On Thursday also, the Yugoslav parliament will discuss and possibly pass a draft bill on Belgrade's cooperation with the ICTY. The draft law was adopted by the Yugoslav government last Tuesday. The ruling DOS' coalition partner, a pro-Serbian Montenegrin party SNP, however, has announced it will vote against the bill as the document envisages the hand-over of Yugoslav citizens to the ICTY. Del Ponte was in Belgrade last January and it was her first visit to the FRY since the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic and his regime. (hina) ms