SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC WILL NOT BE HANDED OVER TO THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL TILL MARCH 30








BELGRADE, March 12 /from RIA Novosti's Alexander Slabynko/ - Zoran Zizic said in an interview with the Belgrade-based newspaper Glas that Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Yugoslavia, would not be handed over to the Hague Tribunal till March 30 as "there are no conditions for that".


	He urged the international community, instead of putting forward conditions and setting deadlines, to give the Serb judiciary some time to collect evidence.


	As is known, the US Congress is demanding that Yugoslavia should establish full-scale cooperation with the Hague Tribunal as a prerequisite for granting it economic assistance in the amount of USD 100 million. The term "full-scale" cooperation implies, first of all, the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic.


	For his part, Momcilo Perisic, leader of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) and former chief of the general staff of the Yugoslav armed forces, said in an interview with the Grazdanski List newspaper of Novi Sad that Slobodan Milosevic would certainly be arrested before March 31 this year. At the same time, he indicated that the majority of the DOS Presidium members were of the opinion that the former Yugoslav president should stand trial in Yugoslavia, not elsewhere.