ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR ARRIVES IN BELGRADE

BELGRADE, Sept 3 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, arrived in Belgrade on Monday evening to hold talks with Yugoslav and Serbian officials on cooperation between the ICTY and Yugoslavia. Del Ponte refused to give statements to the press and immediately held talks with a number of ambassadors and other representatives of the international community in Belgrade. ICTY spokeswoman Florence Hartmann said earlier today del Ponte would meet Yugoslav and Serbian justice ministers Savo Markovic and Vladan Batic, Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic, representatives of the Belgrade district attorney's office and head of the Serbian interior ministry Dragan Karleusa. Ahead of del Ponte's arrival, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic ruled out handing over President Milan Milutinovic to the U.N. court in The Hague to face Kosovo war crimes charges. The premier said Milutinovic as Serbian president has immunity. Hartmann said immunity did not protect those indicted by the U.N. tribunal set up eight years ago to examine crimes during the collapse of old socialist Yugoslavia in the 1990s. "There is no immunity before the international tribunal and it does not protect him," the ICTY spokeswoman said. (Hina) it