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> Top Yugoslav judge in Milosevic case quits
>
>
> BELGRADE, June 28 (Reuters) - The head of Yugoslavia's Constitutional Court
> submitted his resignation on Thursday just before the court began discussing
> moves to hand over Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
>
> "I think it is for the best that I do not participate in the work (of the
> court) and I will not vote (on the issue before the court)," court president
> Milutin Srdic said at an open session of the body.
>
> It was not immediately clear if the resignation of Srdic, appointed when
> Milosevic was still in power, would have a direct outcome on the court's
> meeting on the high-profile case, which could determine the fate of the
> former president.
>
> His resignation left four judges in the Constitutional Court, which started
> meeting around noon (1000 GMT) to discuss a controversial government decree
> paving the way for handing over war crimes suspects like Milosevic to the
> Dutch-based tribunal.
>
> The court has the power to strike down the decree passed by reformist
> ministers setting out procedures for cooperating with the tribunal or it can
> decide simply to suspend the measure until it reaches a decision on its
> validity.
>
> But some reformers argue the court should be ignored as many of its officials
> are partisan appointees hand-picked by Milosevic, whose authoritarian rule of
> Serbia and Yugoslavia ended last October when he was ousted in a mass
> uprising.
>
> They have also said the government decree is unnecessary, arguing Yugoslavia
> is already obliged to cooperate fully with the tribunal under international
> law.
>
> Milosevic's lawyers argue handing the former Yugoslav president over to the
> tribunal would violate a constitutional ban on extraditing Yugoslav citizens.
>
> But backers of the measure counter by saying handing a suspect over to the
> tribunal does not amount to an extradition as it is a U.N. institution, not a
> foreign state.
>
> The meeting of the Constitutional Court came a day after the United States
> rewarded Belgrade's efforts so far in cooperating with the tribunal by saying
> it would attend a donors' meeting on Friday.
>
> 06:53 06-28-01
>
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