ALL WAR CRIMES INDICTEES WILL END UP IN THE HAGUE - RUEHE

( Editorial: --> 6651 ) SARAJEVO, April 14 (Hina) - The German Defence Minister Volker Ruehe on Tuesday said he firmly believed that all those against whom the Hague Tribunal had issued indictments for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia would be brought to justice and be tried. Ruehe said this during today's visit to the German Stabilisation Force (SFOR) soldiers in Rajlovac outside Sarajevo. "I don't doubt that those persons will all end up before the international war crimes tribunal either of their own accord or in some other way," Ruehe said. Asked whether German soldiers would participate in the possible arrest of the most wanted indictee - Radovan Karadzic, Ruehe said that like all other SFOR soldiers, German soldiers, too, would act in line with their mandate in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ruehe and president of the government of the German federal province Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Berndt Seite, held talks behind closed doors with the commander of the German SFOR contingent, General Jan-Jorg Oerding and General Stephen Kretschmer, commander of the German-French SFOR brigade. After the visit, Ruehe left for Banja Luka for talks with Republika Srpska President Biljana Plavsic. (hina) rm 141430 MET apr 98