Milosevic's Lawyers to Ask Court to Scrap Government DecreeFormer Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's lawyers will appeal to the Constitutional Court on Monday to take measures to prohibit the government from implementing a decree on extraditing war crime suspects, the Tanjug news agency reported Monday.Toma Fila, a lawyer for the former president, was quoted as saying that the lawyers would submit a written application to the court asking it to take measures to prohibit the government from implementing the decree that could pave way for transferring Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Milosevic, who has been jailed since April 1 on domestic charges of corruption and abuse of power, on Sunday categorically defied the government decree saying it violated the country's constitution. The decree, which was issued on Saturday and sets out legal procedures for the handover of indictees, came into force on Sunday. Yugoslavia has been under intense Western pressure, particularly from the United States, to agree to hand over Milosevic to The Hague before an international donors' conference scheduled for June 29. |
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