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AP. 20 January 2002. Ex - Top Yugoslav Official to Testify. PODGORICA, Yugoslavia -- A vice president of former Yugoslavia announced Sunday he was ready to testify in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic before the U.N. war crimes tribunal. Branko Kostic, a communist official in former Yugoslavia who rose to vice president in 1991 just as the multiethnic federation began to disintegrate, expressed his willingness to go to The Hague in an interview with the daily Glas Cnogoraca in his native Montenegro. He said he was willing to tell the court everything he knew about the crises and resulting wars from April 1991 to mid-1992, when the six-republic federation collapsed. "If Slobodan Milosevic's defense calls me as their witness, I will testify. If the prosecutors invite me as their witness, I will not decline to answer that invitation either," Kostic, 62, was quoted as saying. Kostic represented Montenegro in 1991 in the already crumbling collective Yugoslav presidency. Kostic did no go into details of what he might tell the court, but said that "in the bloody civil war there were many, many crimes, committed by all sides." He insisted that he could shed light only on the early years of the conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ==^================================================================ 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 ==^================================================================
