According to this UN war crimes tribunal, Kay sent a letter on 22 February asking the court to subpoena Clinton and gave a detailed description of failed attempts to persuade Clinton to come on his own and take the witness stand at the ICTY trial of former Yugoslav and Serbian President Milosevic, indicted for genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and war crimes in Croatia and Kosovo.
Key and the indictee believe that the proposed testimony of Bill Clinton would be of material importance for the defence.
Some of the 13 topics on which Kay and Milosevic expect Clinton to testify are what they cite as the United States' direct and indirect assistance to Croatia during Croatia's attacks against Serb rebels from 1991 to 1995, Washington's assistance to Bosnia-Herzegovina, enabling Islamic countries such as Iran and various agencies as well as al-Qaida to provide Bosnia with weapons, the U.S. in NATO air strikes against Serb forces in Croatia and Bosnia and later against the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Washington's support to Kosovo armed units.
In December, the trial chamber turned down similar requests to subpoena British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to be defence witnesses. It has not yet decided on the request to call General Wesley Clark, NATO commander in Europe from 1996 to 2000, whom the defence and the indictee would also like to see as a defence witness.