 Russia says it has accepted a request by former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to come to Moscow for medical treatment, and will guarantee to return him to his war crimes trial after treatment. Milosevic, suffering from a heart condition and high blood pressure, asked for a provisional release from detention in the Netherlands where he is being tried by the United Nations war crimes tribunal on genocide charges.
| That assumes he's ever 'healthy' enough to be returned ... |
Mikhail Kamynin, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, said: "Russia has sent the necessary folder of documents to the international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, on the basis of which the tribunal could take a decision on the temporary release of Milosevic. "Apart from this, Milosevic himself has offered the tribunal guarantees that he will return to The Hague immediately after the completion of his treatment." |