WAR CRIMES SUSPECT READY TO SURRENDER EX-YUGOSLAV ARMY CHIEF CALLS GOING TO THE HAGUE `MY LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY'

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 15, 2002| Author: Reuters | Copyright information

BELGRADE - The former Yugoslav army chief, General Dragoljub Ojdanic, is ready to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal after Parliament passed a law last week approving cooperation with the court, a newspaper reported yesterday.

Ojdanic said he would not try to evade his legal obligation to appear in The Hague, the Frankfurt-based Serbian language newspaper Vesti said.

"They can arrest me straight away but there is no need as I am not going to run away or hide," Vesti quoted h...

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