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Article: Serb PM calls for voluntary surrenders.
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- United Press International
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- December 24, 2001
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec 24, 2001
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindic called on war-crimes indictees in his part of Yugoslavia to voluntarily surrender to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
"My message is: instead of hiding behind the nation, why those who are on the lists of indictees and who were the highest officials of the state not go and lift that burden from the nation," Djindic said to a group of Serbian media editors on Sunday.
Djindic also said that a law on cooperation with the tribunal should be adopted on the federal level and not, as Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica wants, by Serbia.
"If they are not ready to do ...