BELGRADE, July 19 (Hina) - The Yugoslav government on Thursday decided to exempt several state and police officials from the obligation to keep military and state secrets in proceedings before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The
Hague, with an explanation that "their testimonies will not have ill effects."
BELGRADE, July 19 (Hina) - The Yugoslav government on Thursday
decided to exempt several state and police officials from the
obligation to keep military and state secrets in proceedings before
the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, with an explanation that
"their testimonies will not have ill effects." #L#
Also exempt from the obligation to keep state, military and
official secrets, regarding events in Kosovo, is former Yugoslav
president Zoran Lilic, who is already in The Hague and is to testify
in the Slobodan Milosevic trial.
The Yugoslav government said in a statement that earlier it had
exempted from the same obligation police officials Obrad
Stevanovic and Teodor Stancic, former head of the state security
department Radomir Markovic (who is in detention under suspicion of
participating in the assassination attempt on Vuk Draskovic's life
and the murder of four senior officials of the Serbian
reconstruction movement in 1999), and Zoran Mijatovic, former
senior official of the Serbian Interior Ministry.
The Yugoslav government made this decision a day before a visit of
ICTY chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte to Belgrade.
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