SERBIAN PREMIER DENOUNCES PUBLIC APPEARANCE BY SLJIVANCANIN

BELGRADE, Aug 30 (Hina) - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic today asked Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and the Yugoslav Army Chief-of-Staff, General Nebojsa Pavkovic, to "hold talks about the Sljivancanin case". Sljivancanin has been indicted by the Hague-based international tribunal for war crimes committed in Vukovar in 1991. Sljivancanin attended a promotion of a book and talked to reporters in Vojvodina. At a news conference in Belgrade today, Djindjic warned that if Kostunica and himself do not hold the talks, "a serious problem in the state in the sense of further credibility" will be occurring. Sljivancanin, as an active Yugoslav Army officer, is under "the exclusive authority of the army and Yugoslav president," Djindjic stressed. Sljivancanin attended a promotion of a book entitled ""This is My Land" in the SUBNOR (partisan movement veterans) building in Vojvodina. The book is his own war diary from his days in Vukovar. It was written by Rada Milcanovic. Sljivancanin is indicted by the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal for the killing of 262 Croatian civilians taken from Vukovar's hospital in November of 1991 and buried in a mass grave on a nearby farm. Alongside him, also indicted are former Yugoslav People's Army officers Miroslav Radic and Mile Mrksic who are also still at large. (hina) lml sb