From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 4:42 PM Subject: Milosevic Again Defies Imperialist Inquisition --------------------------- Monday November 19 12:26 PM ET Milosevic Rejects Court Move to Appoint Lawyers BELGRADE (Reuters) - Defiant former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has rejected as manipulation a move by the U.N. war crimes court to name two attorneys he can meet in private, his Belgrade lawyer said Monday. ``Milosevic´s stand is that this is a new manipulation by the court. The court has never asked Milosevic if he wants these two people to be appointed as his advisers,´´ Dragoslav Ognjanovic told a news conference. Milosevic feels that appointing only two lawyers with whom he may have unmonitored meetings in effect restricts the number of people he can communicate freely with, Ognjanovic said. Milosevic, who was spirited out of Belgrade in June to the court's detention unit in Scheveningen, has refused to appoint defense counsel because he does not recognize the court but has said he wants to meet lawyers in private to discuss his case. The tribunal has named former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark and British lawyer John Livingston as advisers who will be allowed private meetings with Milosevic, indicted for crimes against humanity in Croatia in 1991-92 and in Kosovo in 1999. ``All other persons will not have this privilege. This is not what he wants,´´ said Ognjanovic, who represents Milosevic in a case in a Belgrade court where he is charged with abuse of power. He talked with Milosevic by phone over the weekend. Clark, a member of an international Milosevic support committee, has said Milosevic's rights were being violated because his meetings with lawyers in the detention center were being monitored by U.N. staff. Ognjanovic said by appointing Clark and Livingston the court gave the appearance of responding to Milosevic's requests while in effect preventing him from seeing lawyers of his choice. In September, Milosevic protested when the court appointed three prominent international lawyers as ``friends of the court´´ to assist in the trial chamber and ensure he has a fair trial. He said he was being defended against his will. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________
