From: Miroslav Antic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Milosevic to Meet Lawyers Without U.N. Monitoring HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Saturday November 17 9:42 AM ET Milosevic to Meet Lawyers Without U.N. Monitoring AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic (news <http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/sear ch/news?p=%22Slobodan%0AMilosevic%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw> - web <http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?p= Slobodan+Milosevic> sites) has won the right to discuss his war crimes case with lawyers without being monitored by the United Nations (news <http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/sear ch/news?p=%22United%20Nations%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw> - web <http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/searc h?p=United%20Nations&cs=nw> sites), the U.N. tribunal said on Saturday. Ex-U.S attorney general Ramsey Clark is one of two advisers who will be allowed private meetings with Milosevic, indicted for crimes against humanity in Croatia in 1991-92 and in Kosovo in 1999, to discuss his case at The Hague (news <http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/sear ch/news?p=%22The%20Hague%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw> - web <http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/searc h?p=The%20Hague&cs=nw> sites) detention center. Milosevic refused to appoint a defense counsel because he does not recognize the court but had said he wanted to meet lawyers in private to discuss his case. His wish to have lawyers assisting him without granting power of attorney put him at loggerheads with the tribunal, which had said he did not have client-counsel privilege without appointing a defense lawyer. Clark, a member of an international Milosevic support committee, has said Milosevic's rights were being violated because his meetings with lawyers in the detention center were being monitored by U.N. staff. Clark and British lawyer John Livingston have been named as the two legal advisers who will have so-called client-counsel privilege, U.N. war crimes tribunal spokesman Jim Landale said. ``They are given privilege of communication,'' Landale said. Clark is one of several lawyers who have visited Milosevic since he was spirited out of Belgrade in June to face what is expected to be the biggest war crimes trial in Europe since Nazi leaders were tried at Nuremberg after World War II. ``This is really to regulate that. He (Milosevic) was asked to choose legal advisers so that there is not a constant stream of different visitors,'' Landale said. In September, the court appointed three prominent international lawyers to help pave the way for Milosevic's trial. The ``amici curiae'' or ``friends of the court'' were appointed to assist the trial chamber and to ensure the accused has a fair trial. They do not represent Milosevic, who has branded the court an ``illegal'' instrument of his NATO (news <http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/sear ch/news?p=%22NATO%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw> - web <http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/searc h?p=NATO&cs=nw> sites) enemies. A campaigner for causes often at odds with U.S. authorities, Clark served as attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson in the late 1960's. He condemned the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia during the conflict over Kosovo. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
