ICTY WARNS ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA'S OBSTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR

THE HAGUE, Dec 14 (Hina) - The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia on Monday called on the Peace Implementation Council, which monitors peace in Bosnia, to use its Tuesday summit in Madrid to compel the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to comply with international law and obligations to the ICTY and the PIC. ICTY president Gabrielle Kirk McDonald forwarded a letter to the PIC, pointing to the fact that the Yugoslav government was not complying with its obligations to the ICTY. McDonald wrote in the letter that Yugoslavia's repeated refusal to arrest Mile Mrksic, Veselin Sljivancanin, and Miroslav Radic, accused of war crimes in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar, represented the most obvious example of refusing cooperation with the ICTY. She emphasised the refusal was typical of Yugoslavia's attitude to the tribunal since the tribunal's establishment in May 1993. Since September when she briefed the United Nations Security Council on Yugoslavia's attitude, McDonald said Yugoslavia's non- cooperation had turned into obstructive behaviour. Yugoslavia on November 5 notified the prosecutor it did not accept ICTY's right to conduct investigations on its territory, McDonald also recalled. (hina) ha mm