BANJA LUKA, Dec 1 (Hina) - The president of the Serbian parliament,Predrag Markovic, has said that UN tribunal indictee Ratko Mladic isout of the reach of Serbian police and that there are no indicationsthat he is in the territory of
Serbia and Montenegro, as well as thatall persons who fail to surrender voluntarily and whose whereaboutsare known to the police, would be arrested.
BANJA LUKA, Dec 1 (Hina) - The president of the Serbian parliament,
Predrag Markovic, has said that UN tribunal indictee Ratko Mladic is out of the
reach of Serbian police and that there are no indications that he is in the
territory of Serbia and Montenegro, as well as that all persons who fail to
surrender voluntarily and whose whereabouts are known to the police, would be
arrested."A number of measures is being taken in cooperation with international
forces to check reports about areas where Mladic is believed to be hiding. The
investigation has shown that Mladic is not hiding in those areas," Markovic
said in an interview with Banja Luka's "Nezavisne novine" daily of
Wednesday.
He confirmed that the negative assessment of Serbia and Montenegro's
cooperation with the tribunal by its chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte had
resulted in stepping up cooperation with the tribunal.
"The next step is the arrest of individuals," said Markovic, who met the
president of the Bosnian Serb parliament, Dusan Stojicic, in Banja Luka on
Tuesday, and signed a joint statement urging all indictees of the UN war crimes
tribunal to surrender voluntarily.