Yugoslavs Draft Extradition Law for War Crimes Suspects
The government has drafted a law to enable the extradition of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other war crimes suspects to a U.N. court, a top official said Wednesday.
The law would allow the extradition of suspects but only after a legal review of their cases at home, said Nebojsa Sarkic, an assistant justice minister.
“We tried to balance demands for respect of Yugoslavia’s legal sovereignty and the necessary cooperation with the United Nations,” Sarkic was quoted by the Tanjug news agency as saying.
The law will soon be reviewed by the government and discussed in the federal parliament, he said.
Yugoslavia has been reluctant to hand over Milosevic and others sought by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, citing a constitutional ban on the extradition of Yugoslav citizens.
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