STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Agence France Presse. 21 June 2001. Committee backing Milosevic warns against extradition to ICTY. BELGRADE -- An official of an international committee set up to defend Slobodan Milosevic Thursday warned of catastrophic consequences for Yugoslavia if the former president is handed over to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. "Be sure that misery, poverty, famine and total destruction would prevail in the country" if Milosevic is sent to The Hague, said Mikhail Kuznecov, deputy chairman of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic. "Do not have any illusions that the United States or NATO will give you money and help you rebuild your economy?" he told reporters. The committee was set up on March 24, just a week before Milosevic's arrest by Belgrade reformers on charges of abuse of power and corruption, to clear the ex-president's name over the war crimes indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). NATO "is aiming to destroy Yugoslavia and its citizens," Kuznecov said, adding that Milosevic "is in prison since he was the only one to confront the Alliance, and even managed to stop it." He said that no "law can legalise" Milosevic's extradition to ICTY, as the move "is clearly banned by the Constitutions of Yugoslavia and Serbia." The committee, chaired by Bulgarian MP Velko Valkanov, and grouping figures like former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and writer Harold Pinter, said it has members from 20 countries throughout the world. Its activities are supported by more than 600 prominent figures from 30 countries, said a statement on its website (www.predsednikmilosevic.com). Kuznecov said the committee has set up an international working group to monitor legal procedures against Milosevic, led by Canadian lawyer Christopher Black, who had visited the former president in prison last week. Black was among the lawyers who in 1999 brought war crimes charges against NATO leaders for the bombing campaign on Yugoslavia. .............................. Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/downwithcapitalism Proletarian news & Leninist debate ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
