BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.4043 HINA ZAGREB, JULY 3, 2001

HR-POLITICS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.4043 HINA ZAGREB, JULY 3, 2001 MILOSEVIC'S INITIAL APPEARANCE BEFORE ICTYHE HAGUE, July 3 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic said during his initial appearance at the Hague war crimes tribunal on Tuesday morning he considered the tribunal "false" and therefore felt no need to appoint legal counsel. The panel of judges, presided over by British Judge Richard May, recorded Milosevic's refusal to enter his plea as a plea of not guilty to all counts of the indictment and scheduled the next hearing for August 27. Escorted by two guards, Milosevic entered the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) shortly before 10 a.m. With a serious and calm expression on his face, wearing a dark blue suit and a blue-and-red striped tie, he took a seat at the defendant's chair and spent the time until the arrival of the judges looking around the courtroom and inspecting the gallery, which was fu