Will the Hague Tribunal Get Its Man?

In a public hardening of its position, officials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Wednesday demanded the immediate transfer of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague. A tribunal official arrived in Belgrade Wednesday for a series of legal meetings with justice officials to make the tribunal's position clear and to pass on Milosevic's arrest warrant and indictment to the relevant authorities.

"I want to be sure they are served to Mr. Milosevic," said Hans Holthuis, registrar of the Netherlands-based war crimes tribunal, before meeting Thursday with Serbian justice minister Vladan Batic in Belgrade. He later told the independent Beta news agency that "we had good talks," although Batic reportedly didn't accept the papers, saying they had to be presented instead to the federal justice minister, Momcilo Grubac. Holthuis and Grubac are scheduled to meet Friday. Full Story...