BELGRADE, June 13 (Hina) - The arrest of Hague indictee Veselin Sljivancanin has nothing to do with the U.S. approving financial assistance of $115 million to Serbia but constitutes the enforcement of the law, Serbian Premier Zoran
Zivkovic told the press on Friday.
BELGRADE, June 13 (Hina) - The arrest of Hague indictee Veselin
Sljivancanin has nothing to do with the U.S. approving financial
assistance of $115 million to Serbia but constitutes the
enforcement of the law, Serbian Premier Zoran Zivkovic told the
press on Friday. #L#
"There is no need to directly connect (the arrest) to the approval
of assistance on June 15, or (the EU summit in) Salonika on June 21,
or all that expects us in the coming months. I know this appears as
if people are being arrested and sent to The Hague only when there is
some important event coming up or because of pressure. That is
certainly not the case this time. When technical details exist to
enable the arrest of a Hague indictee, he is arrested, and that is
how it is going to be with anyone wanted by The Hague whom we have to
extradite under domestic laws," Zivkovic said.
A retired officer of the former Yugoslav Peoples' Army,
Sljivancanin was arrested on Thursday at half past midnight in his
apartment in the Belgrade suburb of Cerak, after a ten-hour police
operation.
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