$ ERS WASHINGTON, 9 May (Hina) - The U.N. Security Council yesterday called on Belgrade to extradite to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) three officers of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA),
Veselin Sljivancanin, Mile Mrksic and Miroslav Radic without further delay.
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WASHINGTON, 9 May (Hina) - The U.N. Security Council yesterday
called on Belgrade to extradite to the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) three officers of the
former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), Veselin Sljivancanin, Mile
Mrksic and Miroslav Radic without further delay. #L#
The U.N. Security Council condemned Yugoslavia for failing to
implement warrants issued by ICTY for the arrest of the three
officers who had been mentioned in an ICTY letter of 24 April which
demanded that the officers be arrested without delay, a U.N.
Security Council presidential statement said.
The statement was adopted after ICTY judge Antonio Cassese
sent a letter two weeks ago to the UN Security Council, warning
that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia refused to cooperate with
ICTY and extradite the three officers, indicted for war crimes in
Vukovar.
The UN Security Council recalled the obligation of all states
to cooperate with ICTY and extradite indicted persons.
The three JNA officers were indicted by ICTY for mass killings
near Vukovar and elsewhere in eastern Slavonia in November 1991.
Mile Mrksic, who was then the commander of the JNA Belgrade
Brigade, is responsible for attacks on Vukovar and occupation of
the city as well as for the deaths of 261 non-Serbs. Miroslav Radic
was captain and commander of a special unit within the Belgrade
Brigade, while Veselin Sljivancanin had the rank of major and was
security officer in the same brigade.
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