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Reuters January 17, 2002 Yugo President Did Not Say Karadzic Arrested - Aide BELGRADE, Jan. 17 (Reuters) - The office of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica denied on Thursday that he had told a Kosovo news agency that wartime Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic had been arrested. ''The president did not say anything like that,'' said Neda Stanisavljevic, who heads the president's information office. ``I can assure you that the President did not give any such statements to any Kosovo agency,'' she told Reuters. When asked whether she could deny that such an arrest had taken place, she repeated her earlier statement. Russia's Itar-Tass news agency, monitored by the BBC in London, earlier said Kostunica had told a Kosovo news agency that special U.S. forces had just arrested Karadzic and Mladic, accused of genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. -------------------------------------------------------------------- White House press conference January 17, 2002, Thursday 12:58 PM Eastern Time [excerpt] Q There's a report, Ari, that the U.S. Special Forces have arrested two Bosnian Serb leaders, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Do you know anything about that? MR. FLEISCHER: First I've heard on that report, so I don't have anything on it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC World | Europe Thursday, 17 January, 2002, 18:09 GMT Yugoslav arrest story denied The office of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has denied that he told a Kosovo news agency that the wartime Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic had been arrested. A spokesman for the president's information office, Neda Stanisavljevic, said that the president had not made any such statement to any Kosovo agency. The report was carried by Russia's Itar-Tass news agency. It said that the two men had been arrested by American special forces. >From the newsroom of the BBC World Service ---------------------------------------------------- ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
