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Article: U.N. war crimes prosecutor to demand that Belgrade arrest Ratko Mladic
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- October 20, 2002
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Dateline: BELGRADE, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia's justice minister denied claims by the U.N. war crimes
prosecutor that the former Bosnian Serb army chief, Gen. Ratko Mladic,
is hiding in Yugoslavia.
Savo Markovic made the comments in an interview published Sunday in
the Politika daily. The minister's comments came a day before a visit
to Belgrade by prosecutor Carla Del Ponte to pressure Yugoslav officials
to arrest Mladic.
"I suppose she will demand that our authorities arrest Ratko Mladic,
" Markovic said. "But both the Yugoslav army and the Serbian interior
ministry have stated that they have no information confirming that
Ratko Mladic hiding in our ...