The Hague thinks this can work,
but Belgrade politicians are talking about a deal to get former Serbian boss
Slobodan Milosevic out on bail, so he can live free for the next year or more
while still standing trial on war crimes. Acting Socialist Party leader Mirko
Marjanovic is said to be behind the offer to Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic. If Djindjic backs the deal, and offers The Hague
court guarantees that Milosevic will not abscond from bail, the Socialist Party
will back Djindjic in Parliament. And Djindjic needs all the support he
can get for his reform program while battling the obstructionist President
Vojislav Kostunica, who has denounced the Hague tribunal as illegitimate. And
for the Socialists, their old leader Slobodan would be a useful political symbol
-- if he could stay out of a Serbian jail on the corruption charges still
pending against him.
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