BELGRADE, April 9 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague (ICTY) has not been sent any requests for Veselin Sljivancanin, a former Yugoslav People's Army officer accused of war crimes in Vukovar
in 1991, to be tried in the country, Serbia and Montenegro's Foreign Minister and chairman of the national committee on cooperation with the ICTY, Goran Svilanovic, said on Tuesday.
BELGRADE, April 9 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for
Former Yugoslavia in The Hague (ICTY) has not been sent any requests
for Veselin Sljivancanin, a former Yugoslav People's Army officer
accused of war crimes in Vukovar in 1991, to be tried in the country,
Serbia and Montenegro's Foreign Minister and chairman of the
national committee on cooperation with the ICTY, Goran Svilanovic,
said on Tuesday. #L#
"There is no request," Svilanovic told reporters briefly,
dismissing speculation that recent communication between the
authorities in Belgrade and The Hague about the possibility of
processing in Serbia "a case of war crimes in Croatia" - which the
ICTY's chief prosecutor's spokeswoman Florence Hartmann confirmed
for the Beta news agency - concerned Veselin Sljivancanin.
Sources close to the ongoing investigation into the assassination
of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic have said the police have
arrested several members of paramilitary units which were directly
involved in the execution of POWs at Ovcara outside Vukovar, but the
police have not revealed their identity.
Along with Sljivancanin, the tribunal also indicted Miroslav Radic
and Mile Mrksic, who is the only one from this group to be in custody
in The Hague.
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