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Interfax
March 13, 2006
Russian Foreign Ministry confirms receipt of Milosevic
letter
MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry received
a letter on March 12 from former Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic addressed to ministry head Sergei
Lavrov, ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told
journalists on Monday.
"Milosevic's advisors handed the letter on March to
the Russian embassy in the Netherlands which Moscow
received yesterday in the afternoon," Kamynin said in
answers published at the Russian Foreign
Ministry web site on Monday.
"The handwritten letter cites inadequate treatment by
doctors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and once again asks Russia
to help to get permission to take medical
treatment in a Moscow hospital," he said.
"Currently a group of Russian doctors at the request
of Milosevic relatives, including his brother Borislav
Milosevic, is ready to head for Hague to take part in
the autopsy," Kamynin said.
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MosNews
March 13, 2006
Russia Does Not Trust Milosevic Autopsy Results —
Foreign Minister
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia
doesn't fully trust Milosevic's autopsy and wanted to
send doctors to examine the body, agencies reported
Monday.
Lavrov said Russia had been disturbed by the UN war
crime tribunal's refusal to let Milosevic undergo
treatment in Russia.
"In fact, they did not believe us," Lavrov was quoted
by RIA Novosti as saying.
"In the situation when we weren't believed, we also
have the right not to believe and not to trust those
who are conducting the autopsy."
Lavrov confirmed that a team of Russian doctors was
urgently flying to the Hague.
The former Yugoslavian president was found dead in his
bed at the U.N. detention center on Saturday. He had
been on trial since February 2002....
The court sessions were repeatedly interrupted by
Milosevic's poor health and chronic heart condition,
but he was not allowed to undergo a course of
treatment in Moscow, although Russia guaranteed his
comeback.
On Monday, the UN war crimes court said Milosevic died
of a heart attack, but refused completely to rule out
a poisoning theory as it prepared his body for
release, AFP reported.
