BELGRADE, Feb 4(Hina) - A former Yugoslav army chief of staff, General Momcilo Perisic, on Wednesday denied having received a summons to testify in the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic before the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague.
BELGRADE, Feb 4(Hina) - A former Yugoslav army chief of staff, General
Momcilo Perisic, on Wednesday denied having received a summons to
testify in the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic
before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.#L#
Speaking at a press conference in Belgrade, Perisic also declined
either to confirm or deny reports that he had recently visited The
Hague, or say whether he had met tribunal investigators and whether he
was under investigation.
"I don't know if I'm under investigation. Perhaps you, journalists,
know that better than I do," Perisic said at the headquarters of his
party, the Movement for a Democratic Serbia.
Perisic reiterated his readiness to cooperate with the Hague tribunal
if so asked, because the tribunal "is unavoidable and must be
respected by every politician". He noted that as a member of the
federal parliament he himself had voted for the law on cooperation
with the tribunal.
"All sides committed crimes and it is necessary that people who have
the information give arguments so that the real culprits can be
punished and the innocent ones set free," he said.
Perisic was sentenced in absentia by a Croatian court to 20 years'
imprisonment for war crimes committed in Croatia in the first half of
the 1990s.
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