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Tanjug
June 13, 2003
Arrest carried out ahead of Powell's
certification,
news agencies
13:01 BELGRADE , June 13 (Tanjug) -
The arrest of
former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) Col.
Veselin
Sljivancanin represents an answer to the US demand
that he be
taken into custody and handed over to The
Hague tribunal, so that Washington
could approve
further aid to Serbia, Reuters said on Friday,
quoating a
senior official of the Serbian Interior
Ministry.
He was arrested two days
before the certification of
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, i.e.
possible
approval at the US Congress that "Belgrade is
cooperating with
the tribunal," which, according to
the news agency, was "a step essential for
the release
of further economic aid worth a total of 110
million
dollars."
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