BELGRADE, Aug 6 (Hina) - The UN war crimes tribunal has decided to make it possible for Yugoslavia to protect confidential information relating to national security, which a former Yugoslav President, Zoran Lilic might reveal in
Slobodan Milosevic's trial, a Yugoslav official said.
BELGRADE, Aug 6 (Hina) - The UN war crimes tribunal has decided to
make it possible for Yugoslavia to protect confidential
information relating to national security, which a former Yugoslav
President, Zoran Lilic might reveal in Slobodan Milosevic's trial,
a Yugoslav official said. #L#
Such a protective measure would refer to possible information in
connection with war events in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina,
which Lilic could give testifying in the Milosevic trial in The
Hague.
"The Hague Tribunal has done something new in relation to
Yugoslavia and has admitted that there are certain state interests
which concern the national security and therefore should be
protected in a way. The Hague Tribunal has practically said that
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia should finds models together with
(the Tribunal's) prosecutors in a bid to protect the interests of
national security during Lilic's testimony," Yugoslav Foreign
Minister's advisor, Vladimir Djeric, was quoted by a local Belgrade
radio as saying.
In mid-July Djeric visited the ICTY and held talks with its
officials asking them for not disclosing information which Lilic
would give and which Zagreb and Sarajevo could possibly use in their
suits they filed with another international court - International
Court of Justice - asking for damages to be paid by Yugoslavia owing
to the aggression it had launched on Croatia and Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
It is too early to say whether Belgrade will officially request
closed-door sessions when Lilic takes the witness stand in the
Milosevic trial. Djeric said the matter would be settled through
agreement with the ICTY prosecution.
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