HARTMANN: ICTY EXPECTS STRUGAR'S SURRENDER OR HAND-OVER

BELGRADE, Oct 9 (Hina) - A spokeswoman for the UN war crimes tribunal's prosecution was quoted by a Belgrade newspaper, 'Blic', as saying that the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was expecting General Pavle Strugar to surrender voluntarily or to be handed over to The Hague by the Montenegrin authorities. General Strugar and the Montenegrin authorities are acquainted with the indictment, i.e. a warrant for his arrest. There is no reason for the indictee not to be at The Hague, and local authorities should organise his transfer to The Hague on their own, the spokeswoman, Florence Hartmann, said. She declined to comment a statement of officials of a Serbian political party, 'New Democracy', who said Vice Admiral Miodrag Jokic was willing to cooperate with the ICTY. Hartmann added the meaning of the word cooperation in the Jokic case was not clear. Generally speaking people who turn themselves in to the tribunal, enjoy greater credibility during the consideration of requests for their temporary release from custody, she explained. Jokic and Strugar, together with retired Vice Admiral Milan Zec and active Captain Vladimir Kovacevic, are indicted by the Tribunal of having killed 43 civilians and destroyed Dubrovnik and its surrounding during the then Yugoslav People's Army's aggression against the south of Croatia in 1991. (hina) ms