BELGRADE, Oct 21 (Hina) - The Dutch Embassy in Belgrade has reportedly refused to issue a visa to the president of the Serb Radical Party (SRS), Vojislav Seselj, about which he was informed last Friday. Seselj's party issued a
statement on Sunday disclosing the information, and added that the Dutch Embassy had explained in a letter that the SRS president presented a danger to the national security of the Netherlands. Seselj's name is included in public indictments recently issued by the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal in connection with alleged war crimes committed by Seselj's paramilitary troops in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, will be visiting Belgrade on Monday to meet Yugoslav and Serbian officials and to reiterate the tribunal's requests that they cooperate and extradite persons publicly indicted or connected with war crimes, Seselj being one of the
BELGRADE, Oct 21 (Hina) - The Dutch Embassy in Belgrade has
reportedly refused to issue a visa to the president of the Serb
Radical Party (SRS), Vojislav Seselj, about which he was informed
last Friday.
Seselj's party issued a statement on Sunday disclosing the
information, and added that the Dutch Embassy had explained in a
letter that the SRS president presented a danger to the national
security of the Netherlands.
Seselj's name is included in public indictments recently issued by
the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal in connection
with alleged war crimes committed by Seselj's paramilitary troops
in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, will be visiting
Belgrade on Monday to meet Yugoslav and Serbian officials and to
reiterate the tribunal's requests that they cooperate and
extradite persons publicly indicted or connected with war crimes,
Seselj being one of them.
(hina) lml